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This Weekend: See What Broadway Would Be Like With a Protected Bike Lane

By David Sachs | Sep 24, 2015 | 1 Comment

Broadway serves different functions for different people. It’s a Main Street for residents of Baker, Athmar Park, Golden Triangle, and West Wash Park, and a shopping and nightlife destination for everyone in the city. It’s also Denver’s most important north-south transportation link, which is why planners call it “Denver’s spine.” Yet Broadway’s design caters mostly to drivers […]

Saturday’s Tour de Fat Is a Party to Benefit Sustainable Transportation

By David Sachs | Sep 10, 2015 | No Comments

Just two days left until New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat festival. Two days until thousands of people on bikes take to City Park clad in overalls and Speedos and sombreros and banana suits and shark masks and… everything imaginable, really. Tour de Fat is a party. It’s probably Denver’s best party. But it’s also a way to get more […]

Temporary Protected Bike Lane Finally Coming to South Broadway

By David Sachs | Jul 30, 2015 | 4 Comments

A protected bike lane on Broadway is one small step closer to reality. As long as the city approves the permits, people on bikes — and local businesses — will benefit from a temporary, two-way protected bike lane on South Broadway between 1st Avenue and Bayaud Street. The demo is planned for September 25 to 27, according to […]

Bike-Ped Bridge Opens, Better Connects People With Colorado Station

By David Sachs | Jul 28, 2015 | 5 Comments

A pedestrian and bicycle bridge to Colorado Station over I-25 opened today, 16 years and $8 million after Denver’s government officially identified it as necessary. Advocates, elected officials, and members of the Department of Public Works marked the opening with a ribbon cutting at RTD’s Colorado Station this morning. The freeway used to separate people from […]

BikeDenver Releases Map Showing Bike Lanes to Nowhere

By David Sachs | Jun 26, 2015 | 2 Comments

People who depend on Denver’s bike network to get around are tossed from calm bike lanes into chaotic streets too often because of sporadic, fragmented infrastructure. It’s a familiar feeling for riders, but seeing the gaping voids mapped above is striking, even cringeworthy. BikeDenver released the map yesterday, inspired by a Washington Post article that mapped the disconnects in […]

Here’s How to Take Part in Colorado’s Bike to Work Day

By David Sachs | Jun 23, 2015 | 1 Comment

Colorado’s Bike to Work Day is tomorrow, and while it may or may not inspire long-term behavioral change for commuters, the sea of bikes on the road — last year the region saw about 30,000 — probably makes it the safest day of the year to pedal to the office. The Denver area sees about 18,000 bike commuters on an […]

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