Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about CDOT

Meet Hank, the Guy CDOT Created to Scold People Who Get Hit By Drivers

By David Sachs | Aug 21, 2015 | 21 Comments

https://youtu.be/6JT6wrUMTug Ever wonder what runs through the bureaucratic hive mind of a transportation agency still laboring under last century’s paradigm, trying to evade culpability for designing wide, fast, deadly roads? An agency that thinks the key to remaining relevant is to tweak the same old messages for a Millennial audience by posting to the social medias and the YouTubes? Wonder no […]

Tonight: Tell CDOT That I-70 Doesn’t Need More Lanes

By David Sachs | Aug 20, 2015 | 1 Comment

City Councilor Deborah Ortega grilled the Colorado Department of Transportation last month over its agreement with Denver Public Works that trades flood protection for $83 million in funding for a massive I-70 expansion. “Yes, the drainage has been part of the conversations, but not the details of how all of this was going to be financed and what kind of long-term […]

West Colfax Demo Proves Neighborhood Needs, Deserves Complete Street

By David Sachs | Aug 19, 2015 | 1 Comment

West Colfax Avenue suffers from an identity crisis. It was designed to move motor vehicles in and out of the city as fast as possible, but it’s also a neighborhood street where bus riders, families, and shoppers abound. The result is a thoroughfare that caters to motorists, but not to the people who actually live, work, and walk there. […]

Widening Federal Boulevard for Cars Makes No Sense, But BRT Does

By David Sachs | Aug 18, 2015 | 3 Comments

Crashes on Federal Boulevard between Seventh Avenue and Howard Place are higher than the statewide average. So how have the Colorado Department of Transportation and Denver Public Works responded? By adding a sixth travel lane for drivers and widening the current ones — two actions known to increase speeds and congestion. When it’s completed in 2018, […]

Can Tim O’Brien Fill Dennis Gallagher’s Very Large Shoes?

By David Sachs | Aug 4, 2015 | No Comments

It appears that the office tasked with watchdogging Denver’s strong-mayor form of government is done holding the city’s feet to the fire over its agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation that commits $83 million to widening I-70 in exchange for badly needed flood protection. Former Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher understood that making essential infrastructure upgrades contingent on a highway […]

Protesters Call for I-70 Re-Route Outside Hancock’s Inaugural Address

By David Sachs | Jul 20, 2015 | 4 Comments

Protesters took aim at the I-70 widening project and demanded transparency today outside the Ellie Caulkins Opera House where Mayor Michael Hancock was being sworn in for his second term. Chanters belted protest songs and held signs reading “We can re-route I-70!” and “!Sí se Puede Desviar El I-70!” Fran Frainaguirre lifted a sign up at the corner of 14th and […]

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