Broadway Bike Lane Scandal
Latest coverage of PBOT Commissioner Mingus Mapps’ attempt to make changes to the bike lane on Broadway, despite warnings from PBOT staff.
“Doing nothing is not an option,” Williams wrote.
Read the email PBOT director sent staff to heal Broadway wounds
“I own this most recent misstep.”
Podcast: Mingus Mapps on the Broadway Bike Lane Scandal
Mapps maintains he never signed-off on a specific plan and that his PBOT Director was merely starting a conversation.
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Whoever it was that was biking to work downtown really isn’t doing it any longer. I work on a street…
This is a great illustration of some of the fundamental shortcomings of our transit system. I do not see how…
I wasn’t aware that it was a Vision Zero best practice to have a director and elected official, neither of…
Mapps & Williams have clearly made a decision to hitch their political future to keeping downtown businesses happy rather than…
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