Friday’s Headlines

A rendering of what a future bus shelter at Colfax and Broadway will look like. Image: RTD.

From Streetsblog

  • Better bus stops and faster trips will come to RTD’s 15 and 15L East Colfax lines as RTD makes its first major upgrades to the corridor in 30 years. (Streetsblog Denver)

Other news

  • Montbello pedestrian and health advocate Pam Jiner started a cooking club, using transportation to overcome the neighborhood’s food insecurity. (Denverite)
  • Denver street sweeping starts April 2, which “sweeps enough pollutants off the streets to fill Coors Field with 12 feet of trash and gunk” ever year. (CBS4)
  • Boulder County Transportation Director George Gerstle, who helped repair the “catastrophic damage to roads, bridges and stream channels after the September 2013 floods,” is retiring. (Daily Camera)

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