Thursday’s Headlines

From Streetsblog

• Series: The Electric Hummer Will Be Bad For The Planet (Streetsblog USA)

Other news

• Virginia Village could get a bike lane connecting cyclists to two major corridors (Denverite)
• RTD service changes: “They’re not just throwing darts.” (RTD news release)
• Two RTD Board of Directors committees meet today (RTD website)
  • Communications & Government Relations Committee (agenda includes a communications plan)
  • Planning/Capital Programs & FasTracks Committee (agenda includes 16th Street Mall pavers)
• How Many Distracted Drivers Get Cited? (Colorado Matters/CPR)
• Curbed wants to know: Denver’s public works department solicited designs for scooter-parking corrals in an effort to “reclaim” streetspace for people. Why is the city not giving scooter users safer places in the street to ride them? (Curbed)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 57 Moderate. Yesterday’s max: 52 Moderate.
• National headlines at Streetsblog USA

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