Friday’s Headlines

At this neighborhood bikeway in Vancouver, bicycles can enter via the cutout, but cars can only exit. Photo: Payton Chung via Flickr

Denver will add 17 miles of new bike lanes this year. Here’s where. (Streetsblog Denver)

An RTD train hit and injured a pedestrian at the Broadway and I-25 station. (Denver Post)
With no rail line to Boulder expected before 2042, RTD is looking into a plan that would share freight tracks to get commuters there six times a day. But don’t expect to ride the rails to Boulder anytime soon. (CPR)
Denver Police have never ticketed people who ride scooters on sidewalks, but that could change. (5280)
Sloan’s Lake NIMBYs fight a proposed 16-story, 320-unit building with more affordable units than market rate. (Fox 31)
ExxonMobil will invest up to $100 million in a partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. The company hopes “to pursue new breakthroughs in low-emission energy technologies.” (Denver Post)
Denver Air Quality Index: 6 a.m.: 30 Good. Yesterday’s max: 38 Good.
National headlines at Streetsblog USA.

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