Alessandro Rigolon
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Alessandro Rigolon
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Associate prof of urban planning. Research on green space equity, green gentrification, climate adaptation, and health equity. Love SLC, my family, and the great outdoors. Opinions (good or bad) are my own 🇮🇹🇺🇸 🌩️👀 rJgnW3igNgz7 .. more

Environmental science 45%
Geography 11%
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My older daughter learned to ride a bike today. She was so happy. As she was riding, she said, “I feel free.” My heart is full.

Wasn’t even on his phone. He just didn’t look both ways and blew through a stop sign. I yelled and he honked back

The driver didn’t even look my way so I’m afraid the brick might not have worked

As Patton Oswalt said eloquently, it only takes one Nazi in a bar to turn it into a Nazi bar. Kudos to the bar management. If you’re in Vegas, please go support Bottled Blonde
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar
Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.
lasvegassun.com

If you’re a parent driving near your kids elementary school, why are you driving recklessly? I can’t imagine having so much disregard for your community

I almost got hit by a driver in front of my neighborhood’s elementary school. He didn’t stop as he was exiting the school property despite a tight turn and big stop sign. I’m of course in favor of all traffic calming we can do, but how do we get dangerous drivers to give a damn about pedestrians?

Nerds Against the Machine

Should cars only be sold if in high-vis colors? And should car drivers wear helmets, too?

Also, being down seven points on Facebook really means he’s cooked

There’s a reason it’s called “the Nazi website”
Trump job approval rating by news platform

🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40

www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
Trump job approval rating by news platform

🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40

www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...

Sometimes, I wonder if the world's so small that we can never get away from the sprawl. Living in the sprawl, dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains, and there's no end in sight. I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights.
Arcade Fire presents Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
YouTube video by Merge Records on YouTube
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This post is brought you by the proposed takeover of Salt Lake City’s streets by the state of Utah. Some of the stuff that our suburban lawmakers say is just unbelievable
Omnibus bill would complete state takeover of Salt Lake City's streets...
What's Yours is Mine
www.cityweekly.net

You can read this and tell me if this post is reductive www.cityweekly.net/news/omnibus...
Omnibus bill would complete state takeover of Salt Lake City's streets...
What's Yours is Mine
www.cityweekly.net

They seem more ok with other cars slowing them down. They get mad when pedestrians, cyclists, or transit do

To suburban drivers used to having 100% of road space in their suburb, having to slow down a bit in the city because a pedestrian is crossing feels like oppression. I believe this helps explain some of the state laws preventing blue cities from doing traffic calming or road diets

It’s about making friends, not enemies

I'm sorry, but you can't throw around the word "safety" and then a few lines later, prescribe car lanes to be at least 12 feet wide. Wider lanes = more speeding

The GOP doesn't care about people's lives. They care about their "freedom" to drive everywhere and to do so without inconveniences, the lives of people in SLC be damned
“Why would the state want us to not address one of the leading causes of death in the city?” Capital Hill and Marmalade council member Chris Wharton said. “... All we’re trying to do here is preserve people’s lives.”

www.sltrib.com/news/2026/02...
SLC council member ‘cannot imagine even ceding an inch’ on traffic-calming in face of new bill
For the second straight year, Utah lawmakers are looking to restrict where and how Salt Lake City officials can slow down cars on city streets.
www.sltrib.com

I didn't know it was so expensive. Not sure who made this decision either

Yeah, someone who's still on the other app and who doesn't give transportation and housing advocates a great rep

We all know who this is about. That's actually one of the reasons why I'm no longer on Twitter (alongside the nazis, of course)

You know who he’s referring to. That person is currently out of control and likely counterproductive in the fight against SB 242

My friend Taylor has great advice for bike and housing advocates

Great to see LOVE by Robert Indiana on the U of Utah campus

Reposted by Alessandro Rigolon

“Why would the state want us to not address one of the leading causes of death in the city?” Capital Hill and Marmalade council member Chris Wharton said. “... All we’re trying to do here is preserve people’s lives.”

www.sltrib.com/news/2026/02...
SLC council member ‘cannot imagine even ceding an inch’ on traffic-calming in face of new bill
For the second straight year, Utah lawmakers are looking to restrict where and how Salt Lake City officials can slow down cars on city streets.
www.sltrib.com

Such a weird decision

SLC

Good point. I guess the milk in a gelato is different than milk in a cappuccino 🤷