Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Brighton Boulevard

Denver Officials to Celebrate (Unfinished) Brighton Blvd Transformation Today

By David Sachs | Jun 21, 2018 | 4 Comments

By all means, enjoy the block party at 35th and Brighton after the grip-and-grin — local businesses have endured 20 months of construction and could use the foot traffic — but you may want to adjust your expectations.

Bikeways are starting to take shape next to sidewalks. Photo: David Sachs

Eyes on the Street: Signs of Bikeway Life on Brighton Boulevard

By David Sachs | Apr 27, 2018 | 5 Comments

If you're like me, you've avoided Brighton Boulevard like the plague. It's not an easily navigable place while construction crews dig up the road to create a human-scaled street with raised bikeways and -- blessings up -- sidewalks.

Safer Intersections, Lower Speed Limits Coming to Morrison Rd, Brighton Blvd

By David Sachs | Nov 11, 2016 | No Comments

Denver Public Works wants to decrease the posted speed limits and design safer pedestrian crossings on two dangerous streets: Brighton Boulevard in River North and Morrison Road in Westwood. Drivers seriously injured five people walking and four people biking on Morrison Road between 2012 and 2015, according to city data. And this March, a truck driver […]

Get Ready for a Much Better Brighton Boulevard

By David Sachs | Oct 14, 2016 | 2 Comments

Mayor Michael Hancock got his hands a little dirty Thursday in River North when he fiddled with some levers on a bulldozer that, eventually, dug up the ceremonial dirt for a major transformation of Brighton Boulevard. “I travel Brighton Boulevard every day,” Hancock said. “And I have not been shy about the fact that I […]

Support a Better Brighton Blvd. With BikeDenver and Great Divide Brewing

By David Sachs | Jul 20, 2016 | No Comments

Looking for something fun to do this Saturday while also contributing to society? BikeDenver is holding its first annual Brighton BikeDown, a fundraiser at Great Divide Barrel Bar in River North. Right now Brighton Boulevard is far from the most bikeable street in Denver, but it very well could be by next year, after Public […]

#StreetFail: When the Bus Stop Is a Curb-less Parking Lot Next to a Speedway

By David Sachs | Jan 26, 2016 | 1 Comment

Here’s a bus stop with absolutely no protection from the zooming trucks and cars that frequent Brighton Boulevard. This RTD stop is smack in the middle of a sidewalk desert, next to the Denver Colosseum and ramps to I-70. There’s no difference between the street and the waiting area — a parking lot — so […]

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