Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about John Hickenlooper

Gabe Klein on What It Will Take to Transform Denver’s Streets

By David Sachs | May 17, 2016 | 1 Comment

Here’s part two of Streetsblog Denver’s interview with Gabe Klein, author of Startup City and former DOT chief of Chicago and Washington, DC. Klein is one of the keynote speakers at today’s Live.Ride.Share conference on shared mobility. In part one of the interview, Klein discussed the potential impact of new vehicle technologies on city streets. Here he delves into […]

Hickenlooper on I-70: A Wider Highway Will Be Good for Your Health

By David Sachs | May 9, 2016 | 5 Comments

Even as Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx calls on state officials to mend the scars left by urban highways in the 1950s and 60s, Governor John Hickenlooper is recycling 60-year-old talking points to justify making the I-70 scar even wider in north Denver. Streetsblog NYC’s David Meyer got a few minutes with the governor while he was in New York […]

Hickenlooper on I-70 Boondoggle: “Maybe My Facts Are Out of Date”

By David Sachs | Apr 21, 2016 | 2 Comments

Yesterday Governor John Hickenlooper went on Colorado Public Radio for his monthly interview with Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner. Hickenlooper answered various questions on various subjects, and it was going smoothly until Warner asked the governor about his transportation department’s plan to widen I-70 through north Denver. Hickenlooper was all over the map. In the end, Hickenlooper tepidly […]

Highway Hick: Illustrating the I-70 Boondoggle’s Fearless Leader

By David Sachs | Apr 12, 2016 | No Comments

What does a governor who won’t stop a zombie highway boondoggle look like? Brad Evans, who founded the rapidly growing “Ditch the I-70 Ditch” Facebook group, imagines something like this. “I did it because, really, Streetsblog came up with that ‘Highway Hick’ name and I just felt like someone needed to put a picture to it,” Evans said. “It’s designed […]

Hickenlooper: Widening I-70 Will “Reconnect Communities”

By David Sachs | Mar 24, 2016 | 3 Comments

John Hickenlooper didn’t start the I-70 boondoggle, but it’s on track to get built on his watch. And he seems fine with that. In fact, he comes across as proud. Hickenlooper has stayed quiet about the massive highway expansion project slated for north Denver, and his office took its time before responding to Streetsblog’s inquiry about […]

While Denverites Speak Out Against I-70 Widening, Hickenlooper Stays Silent

By David Sachs | Mar 22, 2016 | No Comments

With the groundswell of opposition to Colorado DOT’s plan to gouge a super-wide highway trench across north Denver, Governor John Hickenlooper has to know that city residents are angry about the prospect of more traffic ripping through their neighborhoods on a supersized I-70. Hickenlooper is the only person who can tell CDOT to stop the project, so Streetsblog reached out to his […]

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