🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳

Livable cities through a transportation lens | Streets are for people | Transportation director for the greatest city around, but views are my own

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

biking to work
a poem
by jon larsen

i bike to work

wearing the same clothes

that i wear at work

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

I've had several people tell me recently that they've started biking because of new bike infrastructure that the City has built.

Induced demand is a real thing for highways, but it's also a real thing for biking and transit. And it's so much more fun, healthy, and sustainable.

[SLC Transportation, Engineering, & Streets @slcmoves]

The 300 West reconstruction is wrapping up this summer. And if you think the corridor looks livelier than it did before, you are right. The project added over 200 trees to park strips along the roadway.

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

Cool space in downtown SLC

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

Things were hopping Saturday night at the Green Loop pop up demonstration site!

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

Riding home tonight after a late community meeting and enjoying the 300 West bikeway

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

Last week of the Green Loop demonstration!

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

View of 600 East on the bike ride in this morning

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

New neck downs and chicanes on McClelland St in the heart of Sugar House to slow cars and make for a more human-friendly connection between 2100 S and Sugarmont/S-Line

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

It's quite possible that my love of transit started with watching UTA's commercials as a kid. They delight me in a way that I can't even explain.

https://t.co/25M7BEmC0z

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

Exhibit A of the very real barriers we face in SLC with the east/west divide.

This train isn't even moving. Just saw a guy crawl between cars to get through.

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

Transit nerds are some of my favorite people - those who get how important it is and can't help but study it and advocate for it.

As a transportation professional, I've found transit to be the most interesting, challenging, yet rewarding of the travel modes to plan for.

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

Downtown SLC was hopping this weekend.

Such a great city!

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

I love how biking is such a social activity

Last night, I rode home partway with a colleague from Engineering, and we bumped into a BAC member starting his ride, then to top it off, I saw my son who happened to be out and we enjoyed riding together for the last leg home

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

SLC demonstration project showing that streets can do so much more than just move cars. Folks seem to really be enjoying this green, connective space.

Can't wait to make the Green Loop permanent!

[SLC Transportation, Engineering, & Streets @slcmoves]

You're invited! On Thursday, May 25 the SLC Bicycle Advisory Committee and SLC Transportation staff will be hosting a bicycle tour of the 600 East Neighborhood Byway. We hope you can join us for a fun, casual ride to learn more about bicycle infrastructure in Salt Lake City.

[Mayor Erin Mendenhall @slcmayor]

🌳An urban forest with 190 trees
🍕 Weekday food trucks
🍺 Saturday beer garden
🥁 Weekly concerts
🏸 and, badminton
The Green Loop is open!
Starting today, for the next 6 weeks, we are experimenting with a temporary downtown forest that incorporates walking, bicycling, and recreation into 200 East. It’s going to be amazing.
I’d love to hear what you think about the Green Loop, at https://t.co/jfCnmZNGPW.

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

Enjoyed the press conference this morning for the Downtown SLC Green Loop demonstration project. Strong leadership from Mayor and Council on this.

The project manager is a visionary landscape architect. Us traffic engineers are in a support role. Great model for street design.

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

Bike Month 💚

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

I was quoted in a recent Utah Stories article about bike safety. Let's keep the conversation going!

https://t.co/5F936PIal3

[🌳🚶‍♂️Jon Larsen 🚲🌳 @stretchtraffic]

All the cool kids cruisin around SLC on their bikes