Monday’s Headlines 6/21/2021: Denver’s high comfort bike lane network

From Streetsblog

Denver is on the verge of failure in building out a high comfort bike lane network (Streetsblog Denver)
Monday’s Headlines Are Returning to Normalcy (Streetsblog USA)
Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us (Streetsblog USA)

Fatal Crash: Denver Police Searching For Driver Who Hit Pedestrian Walking On Sidewalk On Evans Early Friday (CBS Local)
Pedestrian dies after hit-and-run collision in Denver (The Denver Post)
Bicyclist injured in car crash on 21st St. near Welton St. (Burg Simpson)
Aurora boy hit by drunk driver has long road to recovery (Fox 31)
Aurora motorcyclist, 25, dies in crash on South Parker Road (Fox 31)
Car was going 120 mph on I-225 before fatal crash, police say (The Denver Channel)
Driver dies after being ejected from motorcycle in Lakewood (Fox 31)
Volunteers Plant Trees In Neighborhoods Near Central 70 Project (CBS Local)
Bike thefts start to increase in Denver (9 News)
Car thefts climb to highest in a decade as prices surge (CBS Local)
Denver Air Quality Index: 9 a.m.: 35 (Good). Yesterday’s max: 87 (Moderate)

Centennial State

Colorado’s $5.4 billion transportation funding plan signed into law (The Denver Post)
Here come the gas and delivery fees as Colorado’s governor signs $5 billion-plus transportation bill into law (The Colorado Sun)
Fraser chosen for Revitalizing Main Street funding (Sky-Hi News)
New “parklets” installed along Mountain Avenue (Berthoud Weekly Surveyor)
Why Colorado Roads Buckle Under Extreme Heat (CBS Local)
‘Finally Fix The Damn Roads In Colorado’: Gov. Jared Polis Targets Interstate 70 Stretch Between Floyd Hill And Idaho Springs At Bill Signing (CBS Denver)
‘I’ve never been so close to being killed’: Man gets 20 years for crashing car into deputy (9 News)
Suspected car thief caught after mountain pass crash, trail escape in Colorado (OutThere Colorad0)

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