FOCUS, ON POLICY CHANGE.
Route2Change is a moving town hall event organized by The White Line Foundation, a nonprofit advocating for safer roads for cyclists, pedestrians, and other vulnerable road users. Launched in Boulder, Colorado, Route2Change puts state legislators on a bus tour to locations where traffic fatalities have occurred. At each stop, the event honors lives lost, shares stories behind the statistics, and encourages community members to advocate for stronger protections. The initiative aims to transform outrage into policy action by directly engaging lawmakers, and affected communities, on the ground.
I will be documenting all of these event stories and interactions between victims and legislators. Documenting this is very personal to me, and helping move forward any possible progress for vulnerable road users is the only sane thing to do when the road keeps chewing up the people we love and spitting out ghost bikes where laughter used to be. This isn’t content; it’s a ledger of blood and asphalt, a record of promises made under streetlights that flicker like bad motel neon. I’m here to catch the moments before they evaporate in the hot breath of the news cycle, raw testimony traded between cyclists who carry the scars and legislators who carry the pens.
Helping move forward any possible progress for vulnerable road users is a grim kind of optimism, the stubborn, unglamorous faith that something better can be hammered out of bent rims, mangled spokes, and broken hearts. It’s shaking hands with the system and keeping the other hand on the handlebars, ready to swerve. It’s standing in the bike lane while the light changes and saying, “No, we’re not done. Not yet.”
Because the road is a liar and a truth-teller. It will take everything if you let it, but it will also confess, where the paint is worn thin by tires, where the white line failed the kid on a bicycle, where the crosswalk ends in a shrug, and the bike lane disappears at the exact moment courage is required. The stories we gather are not pretty. They’re not meant to be. They’re meant to haunt the committee room, to lean a ghost bicycle against the dais like an uninvited witness who won’t stop staring. They’re meant to remind us that “accident” is the word we use when we’re tired of thinking.
So I’ll keep showing up with a camera, and an appetite for the uncomfortable group rides that end in vigils, bus aisles, and church basements, bike shop back rooms that smell like chain lube and hope, hospital parking lots at dusk, intersections that remember what we try to forget. I’ll keep asking the same impolite questions until the answers start to move bollards, budgets, values, and votes until paint becomes protection and detours become designs and till there is accountability and enforcement for pilots of cars.
This is for the riders who never made it home, for the families who still hang helmets by the door, for the cyclists who’ve measured a city not in miles but in near misses. It’s for the kid wobbling on a first bicycle and the commuter grinding through headwinds, for the e-bike courier chasing daylight and the weekend rider chasing quiet. We are not here to perform grief; we are here to weaponize it into change measured in protected bike lanes, slower streets, daylighted corners, and lives uneventfully rolling into the driveway.
And that’s why Route2Change matters. It’s a moving town hall that drags power out of marble buildings and onto the very streets where the stories begin, buses full of policymakers rolling past the roadside memorials, listening to the people who ride, walk, and roll those miles every day. If the road is the problem, the road must also be the classroom. If proximity changes policy, then this is office hours on two wheels and four.
Want to line up with us at the next stop? Check the Route2Change page on The White Line’s website for the upcoming dates and locations, mark the calendar, bring a friend, and bring a story. We’ll be there mile after mile, pedal stroke after pedal stroke, turning pain into policy and memory into momentum.
Boulder - Done
Colorado Springs
Aurora
Fort Collins
South Denver
