Bicycle Colorado
Sign This Petition If You Think Colorado Traffic Laws Should Value Human Life
Under Colorado law, drivers who injure someone walking or biking often get the same slap on the wrist as drivers who clip a car’s mirror. The charge is called “careless driving” and it carries four points on a driver’s license. It takes 12 points to lose driving privileges, so someone can hit a person, causing life-altering injuries like … Continued
April 4, 2016
Bicycle Colorado Sharpens Focus on Denver With Search for Local Director
As part of its mission to make the entire state bike friendly, Bicycle Colorado has always advocated for safe, bikeable streets in Denver. Now the organization is hiring a director who will focus strictly on the Mile High City and the metro area. “We’re certainly hearing from members that they’re very interested in seeing improvements close … Continued
March 9, 2016
Mikael Colville-Andersen on Building Effective Bike Lanes: Just Do It
It’s really not that difficult to build bike infrastructure so that city streets are safe and efficient for everyone. That’s what Mikael Colville-Andersen, the “bicycle urbanism” expert who founded Copenhagenize, wants Colorado to know. “The greatest thing about bike infrastructure today is very, very simple,” Colville-Andersen told the crowd of about 250 at the Colorado Bicycle … Continued
February 10, 2016
Will the Capitol Stiffen Penalty for Drivers Who Hit People Walking or Biking?
If a driver clips a car’s sideview mirror in Colorado, the offender could get the same charge as a driver who strikes a person walking or biking: Careless driving. In other words, the current law values metal boxes as much as it values human beings. That could change — if state legislators want it to. No one has introduced a … Continued
February 9, 2016
The Legislature Killed Safe Routes to School Funding, So What’s Next?
Pay raises for Colorado legislators, electronic traffic enforcement and student testing dominated state politics in the last session, overshadowing the casualty of a longstanding and successful program: Safe Routes to School. Some state funding remains for the 2015-2016 school year, but none for Denver. And after next year, no Colorado schools will have Safe Routes … Continued
May 22, 2015
Colorado Loses Ground to Utah in National Bike-Friendly Rankings
Colorado is falling behind other states when it comes to bike-friendliness, according to new rankings from the League of American Bicyclists. Utah has leapfrogged the Centennial State, which dropped one position compared to last year. While Colorado can still claim a high ranking, the Bike League is grading on a curve: Scoring 53.9 out of 100 … Continued
May 12, 2015