Tuesday’s Headlines
Badly parked scooters. Drug use in Union Station. Uber trying to steal all transit riders ...
7:44 AM GMT-0700 on April 16, 2019
Two Lyft scooters block the sidewalk on Wazee near the 16th St. Mall.
From Streetsblog
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Eyes on the Street: Badly parked scooters get in the way. (Streetsblog Denver)
Other news
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CDOT campaign wants to end distracted driving crashes. There were 15,600 in Colorado last year. (Summit Daily)
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Drug use is down in Union Station after RTD installed new doors on bathroom stalls. (Fox 31)
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Colorado’s $30.5 billion budget is waiting for the Governor’s signature. It includes $300 million for roads, but the state has a $9 transportation backlog. (Colorado Sun)
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Uber admits it is trying to steal all transit riders away. [Yet RTD still collaborates with them]. (Jalopnik)
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Colorado maintains a 19-page document with all of the “bad or inappropriate words” not allowed on license plates. (9 News)
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Traffic fumes cause as many as 4 million cases of asthma a year among kids. (Quartz)
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Denver Air Quality Index: 6 a.m.: 47 Good. Yesterday: 67 Moderate.
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National headlines at Streetsblog USA.
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