Friday’s Headlines
Denver Streets Partnership’s Amazing Mobility Race aims to illuminate mobility issues to municipal candidates, helping create a sense of urgency on these transportation issues. (Denverite) Polis’ move on federal ozone limits means that oil and gas companies will need to find ways to lower or offset their emissions. (Denverite) A noisy start to established quiet … Continued
8:14 AM GMT-0700 on April 5, 2019
- Denver Streets Partnership’s Amazing Mobility Race aims to illuminate mobility issues to municipal candidates, helping create a sense of urgency on these transportation issues. (Denverite)
- Polis’ move on federal ozone limits means that oil and gas companies will need to find ways to lower or offset their emissions. (Denverite)
- A noisy start to established quiet zones on the A-Line has Denver neighbors fuming. (Denver Post)
- More on the new transportation deal and its funding sources. (Denver Post) (Colorado Sun) (CPR)
- Denver Public Works begins ambitious street paving season, resurfacing 510 miles of roads in and around downtown. (CBS 4)
- A new project has been proposed to fill up yet another sad surface parking lot on Blake Street. It’s the small victories, people! (Denver Infill)
- Speaking of surface parking lot redevelopments, the Rockies announce the name of the west lot development. (9 News) (BusinessDen)
- A Denver Public Works garbage truck dumped smelly sludge onto a residential street and the whole thing was, of course, caught on camera. (Denver Post)
- Boulder County’s Transportation Master Plan update seeks to use cyclists’ recommendations to create better multi-modal infrastructure. (Daily Camera)
- Someone put a trip wire across a bike trail bridge in Colorado Springs, injuring two cyclists. (CBS 4) (Gazette)
- CDOT’s North I-25 Express Lanes Project near Fort Collins will feature a bus stop in the middle of the interstate. (Coloradoan)
- Denver Air Quality Index: 7 a.m.: 64 Moderate. Yesterday: 54 Moderate.
- National Headlines at Streetsblog USA.
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