Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about CDOT

Engineers Blew Off Safety Concerns to Widen Federal. Will They Do It Again?

By David Sachs | Feb 5, 2016 | 2 Comments

Engineers know that wide city streets with wide lanes are dangerous — those are the streets where people get killed by speeding drivers. But when people confronted Denver’s transportation agencies about the widening of Federal Boulevard, Colorado DOT and Denver Public Works blew off their safety concerns. Making the street safer for walking, they said, would ruin the whole […]

Tell CDOT Why Widening I-70 in North Denver Is a Bad Idea

By David Sachs | Feb 1, 2016 | No Comments

The fight over Colorado DOT’s billion-dollar-plus plan to widen I-70 is coming to a head. Many residents, especially of north Denver where the highway has spliced neighborhoods for years, have spoken against this project since around the turn of the century. They’ll bear the brunt of the additional noise and pollution, but widening the highway […]

Denver Can Have Great Neighborhood Streets If CDOT Tears Down I-70

By David Sachs | Jan 29, 2016 | 10 Comments

Unite North Metro Denver has an idea about what to do with I-70. Instead of widening the highway and pumping more traffic into the city like Colorado DOT wants, tear it down and replace it with an urban boulevard, reconnecting the urban fabric of Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea. CDOT is pushing its billion-dollar-plus plan to reconstruct and […]

Denver Post on the Spike in Colorado Traffic Deaths: Ho-Hum

By David Sachs | Jan 25, 2016 | No Comments

A Denver Post editorial published Friday evening opposing stricter seat belt laws provides a troubling glimpse into how Denver’s paper of record views traffic deaths. Last year the number of people who lost their lives hit an eight-year high of 545, the fourth year in a row that traffic fatalities increased. Here’s the complacent response from the paper: The spike last year […]

As Traffic Deaths Spike, Colorado DOT Says Zilch About Fixing Deadly Streets

By David Sachs | Jan 22, 2016 | 2 Comments

In the inaugural year of Colorado DOT’s timid Toward Zero Deaths initiative, 545 people were killed on roads throughout the state. That’s a stark spike in fatalities — 57 more, or 10 percent, than in 2014, and the most since 2008. The number of people killed while walking or biking rose from 74 to 78. More than a quarter […]

Count the Holes in Colorado DOT’s Justification for the I-70 Widening

By David Sachs | Jan 20, 2016 | 2 Comments

A lot of people don’t like Colorado DOT’s plan to widen I-70 in north Denver — and for good reason. Expanding I-70 will generate more traffic, noise pollution, and greenhouse gases while costing a bundle of money that could be spent on other things, like, say, better transit. Opponents of the road widening told CDOT why they […]

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