Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about CDOT

Coloradans Are Driving Less, But Agencies Keep Spending on Expanding Roads

By David Sachs | Sep 29, 2015 | 4 Comments

People in the Southwest are driving less and using transit more, but transportation spending doesn’t reflect those trends, according to a new report from the Southwestern Energy Efficiency Project. Instead state DOTs are building more roads, as though nothing has changed. Meanwhile regional transportation agencies like the Denver Regional Council of Governments aren’t spending enough on […]

Detractors of Hickenlooper’s Bike Plan Want to Hold Colorado Back

By David Sachs | Sep 21, 2015 | 2 Comments

Two camps emerged after Governor John Hickenlooper announced that the state will invest more than $100 million in making Colorado better for biking and walking: those who saw the bid as a way to expand travel choices while reducing traffic injuries and deaths, and those who viewed it as a threat to the idea that all transportation dollars should be spent […]

Gov’s $100M Commitment to Safer Streets Is About More Than Money

By David Sachs | Sep 17, 2015 | 1 Comment

Governor John Hickenlooper’s announcement that Colorado will invest more than $100 million over four years in bike and pedestrian infrastructure was bold, and not just because that money can go a long way. Along with committing 2.5 percent of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s budget to bike and pedestrian projects, Hickenlooper appears intent on strategically reorienting the agency toward a […]

Denver Can Do Better Than Its Shoddy Connections to Transit

By David Sachs | Sep 3, 2015 | 5 Comments

Denver’s transit network is growing, but no government body has taken responsibility for improving access to train stations and bus stops — not RTD, not Denver Public Works, not the Colorado Department of Transportation, not Denver’s elected officials. It’s the city’s low-income residents who bear the brunt of this failure. Those are the findings from a report released today by the transit advocates at Mile […]

CDOT Spikes Campaign That Blamed Pedestrians for Getting Hit by Drivers

By David Sachs | Sep 2, 2015 | 2 Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JT6wrUMTug Well that was short-lived. After less than two weeks, the Colorado Department of Transportation is dropping a social media campaign championed by Hank, the sleazy infomercial character created to scold people for walking. As Streetsblog Denver reported a couple weeks ago, the campaign was a tone-deaf repackaging of discredited ideas that blame people for their own deaths. There […]

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 […]

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