Andy Bosselman
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Oregon Bill Would Increase Density Near Transit
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Cities would no longer be able to legally forbid high-density housing by frequent transit under bill introduced by Oregon's Senate President.
RTD’s New FlexRide Is a Suburban UberPool for the Price of a Bus Fare
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"FlexRide ... is RTD’s shared-ride bus service, available for anyone to connect to other RTD bus or train services," says a blog post on the RTD website. "Riders can also use FlexRide to get direct access to schools, businesses or other amenities in communities without a fixed bus route."
In Denver, the Bus Stops Make Me Sad
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Waiting for the bus in Denver is unpleasant. Often the city's bus stops are are ugly, dirty, badly maintained and dangerously close to highway-speed traffic. This is a quick tour of three unfortunate bus stops.
States May Forfeit $1 Billion in Biking and Walking Funding
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States will forfeit a combined $1 billion in biking and walking funds if they don't get their acts together by September.
Fact Check: Colo. Rep. Wants to Ban Red Light Cameras, Justifies Position With False Info
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State Rep. Jovan Melton (D-Aurora) wants to ban red light cameras in all of Colorado. But his reckless position would cause more wrecks that would hurt and kill people — and the legislator doesn’t have his facts straight. In a recent interview with Denver7 he falsely claimed that the cameras do not cut injuries and fatalities.
Cyclists Can Roll Through Stop Signs in Thornton, a First in Denver Metro
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A Denver suburb has just approved a controversial safety plan that will allow cyclists to slow-roll through stops signs — a practice that studies show keeps cyclists safer than coming to a full stop. Bicycle advocates hope that other cities — including Denver — will soon follow Thornton’s lead.
Distracted Denver Councilman Made Video While Driving Daughter to School
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Celebrate the teachers — endanger everyone else.
Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks wanted to cheer on public school teachers as they returned to work on Thursday, but chose to celebrate in a way that risked the lives of his neighbors: he videotaped himself as he was driving.
Report: Denver Transit Riders Switch to Cars as RTD Fails to Get the Basics Right
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Regular transit riders are giving up on Denver’s buses and trains and hopping into road-clogging cars instead. RTD keeps passengers waiting too long and its routes fail to go to the places where most people want to go, says a new survey.
Traffic Fatalities: ‘It’s Definitely Been a Bad Year for Colfax’
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Drivers have killed four people on Colfax Ave. already this year. City officials could move fast to fix the deadly street — and the killing will continue until they do.
Denver Airport Train Will Get Less Horn-y
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Quiet will finally come to people who live and work along the A-Line train to the airport. Commuter and freight trains will stop routinely blowing their horns at the line's nine road crossings within Denver starting March 1.
Polis, Hancock, Sadik-Khan: Highlights From Today’s Bicycle Conference
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock gave uninspiring speeches at Bicycle Colorado’s Moving People Forward conference today in Denver. But the two followed Janette Sadik-Khan, the former New York City transportation commissioner whose book “Streetfight” calls for an “urban revolution.” (Read the Streetsblog Denver interview.) Sadik-Khan helped the Big Apple transform its streets from […]
Sadik-Khan: Denver Can Learn From NYC’s ‘Streetfight’
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Janette Sadik-Khan, who will be the keynote speaker at Bicycle Colorado’s Moving People Forward conference tomorrow, transformed New York’s streets with dramatic pedestrian improvements, 400 miles of new bike lanes and the repurposing of 60 asphalt plazas into park-like places when she was the New York City transportation commissioner under former Mayor Mike Bloomberg. In […]