Arapahoe Street bike lane
Of Course the Lawrence and Arapahoe Protected Bike Lanes Made Ridership Soar
After Denver Public Works installed the Arapahoe and Lawrence Street bike lanes in 2015, people who used them felt safer, and a lot more people biked on the streets. That's according to early results from a Denver Public Works study documenting the effects of the city's first parking-protected bikeways [PDF].
July 24, 2017
#StreetFail: Sandwiched Between a Semi and a Taxi Cab in the Bike Lane
Plastic posts are not enough to keep drivers out of bike lanes, and here’s a #StreetFail that proves it. Reader Sloan Campi sent in these photos from the Arapahoe Street bike lane. She writes: I was riding in the protected bicycle lane on Arapahoe at 14th Street, when I stumbled upon a taxi parked in the … Continued
May 16, 2016
Here Are Your Winners of the First Annual Denver Streetsie Awards
It’s been a notable year for walking, biking, and transit in the Mile High City. But what was the most notable? The best project? The worst? We put those questions and others to our readers, and the votes are in. Here are your winners of the first-ever Denver Streetsies. Best Livable Streets Victory Money talks — and gets votes. Governor John Hickenlooper’s $100 … Continued
December 30, 2015
Arapahoe Street Bike Lane Ranks Seventh Among 2015 Bike Lanes
The national bike advocacy group People for Bikes is pretty much the Zagat of bike infrastructure, and they’ve rated Denver’s Arapahoe Street bike lane the seventh-best bike lane installed in the country this year. Here’s more from the Boulder-based organization: If only these plastic posts could talk. This one-mile project was languishing as a line on a … Continued
December 17, 2015
Denver Public Works Waters Down the Arapahoe Street Bike Lane
Earlier this month Mayor Michael Hancock cut the ribbon on the Arapahoe Street protected bike lane and promised three more next year. What Hancock didn’t mention was that his Department of Public Works is already handing out special privileges to allow some people to park in the bike lane. He didn’t mention that one section … Continued
December 14, 2015
How to Park Without Blocking the Arapahoe Street Bike Lane: A Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkzyUxibBA To help people — particularly drivers — get used to the new parking-protected bike lane on Arapahoe Street, Denver Public Works put on a “parking demo” for the media. It was pretty cheesy, but the idea was to show people how to park a car, unload it, and walk across the bike lane safely to get to the … Continued
November 6, 2015
No, Bike Lane Construction Hasn’t “Snarled” Traffic on Arapahoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8urX8OCJX0M&feature=youtu.be Public Works crews are installing much-needed parking-protected bike lanes on Arapahoe and Lawrence streets, and it hasn’t taken long for some news outlets to frame the safety measures as an undue burden for drivers. On Monday the Denver Post reported that construction would “snarl” traffic. Today Fox31 used the same verb to describe how changing the street might … Continued
October 21, 2015
Eyes on the Street: Denver’s First Parking-Protected Bike Lanes Begin
The Department of Public Works began installing a pretty monumental piece of the city’s bike network yesterday — parking-protected bike lanes on Arapahoe and Lawrence streets. When complete in mid-November, the bike lanes will provide a downtown route for about a mile between Auraria Campus and 24th Street, with intersection treatments that will make it safer to … Continued
October 14, 2015
Public Bike Infrastructure Shouldn’t Have to Rely on Private Money
Bloomberg published a national story yesterday about crowdfunding public infrastructure projects to ensure government bureaucracies actually implement them. The tactic is becoming more common, Amanda Albright reports, “at a time of waning city budgets and interest in funding projects.” Headlines in Denver lately boast of the booming local economy and the flood of development (read: bigger tax base). Mayor Michael … Continued
August 13, 2015