Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about bike lanes

Gallagher: Under Hancock, Denver’s Bike Network a Priority in Name Only

By David Sachs | Jul 16, 2015 | 2 Comments

If Mayor Michael Hancock and his Department of Public Works don’t set aside funding for Denver’s plan to build a comprehensive bike network, it might as well not exist. That’s the message Denver City Auditor Dennis Gallagher sent to DPW Manager Jose Cornejo in a scathing report released today [PDF]. City leaders often boast about Denver Moves, the 2011 framework […]

Eyes on the Street: The 15th Street Postal Delivery Lane

By David Sachs | Jul 16, 2015 | 16 Comments

On the way to Streetsblog Denver’s office in LoDo yesterday morning, a driver with the United States Postal Service was clogging up the 15th Street protected bike lane with his van. He plopped himself right behind a “No Parking Any Time” sign. As you can see from the picture above, he left no room for me or other people on […]

How Not to Treat Street Design Near Transit Stations

By David Sachs | Jul 9, 2015 | 4 Comments

The Denver Post published a story today by Megan Mitchell that depicts an uprising of sorts against smart street design near the Iliff Avenue Rail Station, which will open next year. Some residents, including Albert Melcher, president of the local neighborhood association, want to nix a planned bike lane and widen a nearby street to handle traffic from the […]

Denver Needs More Street Demos Like the One Planned for West Colfax

By David Sachs | Jul 8, 2015 | 2 Comments

Complete streets advocates are taking ownership of West Colfax by transforming part of it from a four-way car-centric raceway into a haven for pedestrians and people on bikes. It’ll be just a one-day demonstration — organizers describe it as a “lab” — but the idea is to spark a permanent redesign on the street by showing residents, city planners, […]

What Denver’s Transportation Engineers Can Learn From Seattle

By David Sachs | Jul 6, 2015 | 1 Comment

Seattle is, in many ways, Denver’s most comparable peer city. Like the Mile High City, Seattle was built to move cars, but as it grows, the city is looking to retrofit its streets to move people via transit, biking, and walking. There’s a stark difference between the two cities’ approach, though. Seattle is backing up its talk with swift action made […]

Public Works Needs to Design Brighton Boulevard With the Future in Mind

By David Sachs | Jul 2, 2015 | 2 Comments

In an open letter posted on WalkDenver’s website yesterday, Joel Noble challenged the Department of Public Works and their consultants to be bold while redesigning Brighton Boulevard for walking, biking, and transit. Noble wrote as a resident, but he is also a Planning Board member, the president of Curtis Park Neighbors, and co-chair of the INC Transportation Committee. (Full disclosure: he has […]

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