Denver Public Works made some key additions to the city’s bike network in 2017, but red tape has dragged a few bike projects behind schedule.

Here’s an inventory of what DPW built this year compared to what the agency said it would build back in January.

14th Street curb-protected bike lane: Yep

This bikeway between Market Street and Colfax Avenue is probably Denver’s best because concrete curbs act as physical deterrents to drivers parking in it (though bits and pieces of the lane lack the curb treatment). It’s a welcome improvement over the city’s typical bike lane protection toolkit of plastic posts, paint, and signs — and parked cars, when they’re around.

Fourteenth Street still needs work. Drivers turning right across the lane often don’t yield to people on bikes pedaling straight. And drivers still park in the lane to pick up and drop off passengers at busy locales like the Denver Performing Arts Center, so if DPW cannot install curbs as it claims, more enforcement is a must.

19th Avenue bikeway: Nope

DPW planned to build an eight-block bike lane on 19th between Broadway and Park Avenue with three blocks of concrete curbs to protect riders from traffic. That didn’t happen.

The bikeway is part of a bigger project that will convert parts of 19th and 20th avenues to two-way streets. It’s been under construction for more than six months.

14th Avenue parking-protected bikeway: Yep

After a serious learning curve, drivers finally seem to understand that they’re supposed to park outside the 14th Avenue bikeway, which runs just a half-mile between Speer Boulevard and Bannock Street — or about 500 feet past Bannock to be exact. The last bit of the bikeway abruptly ends at the art museum and library, however, tossing riders back into traffic. (A construction zone without any temporary accommodation for people on bikes has wiped out this segment entirely, for the time being.)

There’s plenty of room to create a bikeway all the way up 14th, but that would require reorganizing the three-lane, one-way speedway to prioritize bike riders.

Wynkoop Street redesign with protected bike lanes: Yep

The latest iteration of Wynkoop Street between 15th Street and 19th is the best one so far, with a protected bike lane on the north side of the street for one block in front of Union Station. But DPW still prioritized street parking over bicyclists’ safety on the south side of the street at the city’s largest, most important transit hub. Motorists still constantly force people on bikes into traffic as they load and unload passengers.

“Neighborhood bikeways” on Knox Court and 35th Avenue: Nope

A “neighborhood bikeway” is what DPW calls a collection of streets that don’t necessarily have bike lanes but are designed to prioritize walking and biking. Streetsblog first reported on the 35th Avenue project more than two-and-a-half years ago. A DPW spokesperson said the 35th and Knox Court bikeways will happen in 2018.

That will entail adding traffic-calming measures like bump-outs (extending curbs further into the street at intersections), turn bans, and “diverters” that block motor vehicle through traffic but allow bike traffic.

Extra protections on existing lanes: Nope

“The barrier curb on 15th and planters on Arapahoe are on hold due to various delays including resurfacing (Arapahoe) and lane realignment with the tower construction (15th),” a spokesperson wrote in an email. “We didn’t want to rush installation knowing these factors were in play.”

Standard painted bike lanes on Union, 2nd, 23rd, and 25th: Yep

With the exception of 23rd Avenue, Streetsblog wasn’t aware of these projects, but they’re complete, according to the city’s website. We’ll audit them in the new year.