Friday’s Headlines 4/23/21: Happy Anniversary to the A Line!

Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area

• RTD Celebrates A Line’s 5th Anniversary With 30 Million+ Riders (CBS Local)
• Bicycle safety study taking place in Denver (KDVR)
• Denver Mayor Michael Hancock Joins Other Mayors Asking Biden To Be Included In Climate Migration Study (CBS Denver)
• Denver Police Trying to Put the Brakes on Illegal Street Racing but does not mention traffic calming or infrastructure changes to curb the problem (Westword)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 9 a.m.: 56 (Moderate). Yesterday’s max: 75 (Moderate).

Centennial State

• Effort to force Colorado to cut greenhouse emissions faster exposes exasperation with Polis administration (Colorado Sun)

From Streetsblog

• Traffic Violence Report: 19 people have died from traffic violence compared to 15 in 2020 (Streetsblog Denver)
• GOP Infrastructure Bill Goes All-In On Cars (Streetsblog USA)
• Talking Headways Podcast: Down on Main Street (Streetsblog USA)
• Friday’s Headlines as We Ease into the Weekend (Streetsblog USA)

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