Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about bike safety

Plan for “Bike Safety” on Federal: Make People Bike Anywhere But on Federal

By David Sachs | Aug 26, 2015 | 8 Comments

As Streetsblog Denver reported last week, Colorado DOT and the Department of Public Works are adding space for car traffic on Federal Boulevard in the name of safer walking and biking. The premise that widening a street will improve safety goes against a mountain of evidence and experience. And in fact, if you dig a little deeper into […]

Would a Different Street Design Have Prevented Timothy Erickson’s Death?

By David Sachs | Aug 14, 2015 | No Comments

Some new information sheds a little more light on the crash that killed a Denver man riding his bike on Colorado Boulevard near Colfax Avenue on July 14. The victim’s name was Timothy Erickson and he would be 56 on Monday. Erickson was riding south on the wrong side of Colorado, near the sidewalk, as a driver pulled out of […]