Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about CDOT

Tonight: Help Imagine a Better West Colfax Avenue

By David Sachs | Jun 11, 2015 | 2 Comments

Professional stuntmen don’t want to cross it and Lance Armstrong wouldn’t bike it even after doping up: West Colfax Avenue. It needs to change, and residents can help decide how it will, tonight at an event called Reimagine West Colfax. It’s the first of two meetings that will decide what type of temporary infrastructure — a crosswalk or a protected bike […]

CDOT Reps Portray I-70 Widening as Inevitable

By David Sachs | Jun 10, 2015 | 2 Comments

Residents barely outnumbered the representatives pitching them on the new I-70 “cover” last night at a public meeting in Elyria Swansea. The speakers painted the project — linked to the expensive, traffic-generating I-70 widening — as a done deal. Advocacy efforts to re-route the highway are still active, but face an intransigent Colorado Department of Transportation, which has deemed the option unviable, and Mayor Michael Hancock, […]

Tonight: Public Workshop on the I-70 Cover in Elyria Swansea

By David Sachs | Jun 9, 2015 | 3 Comments

CDOT’s plan to widen I-70 is an expensive disaster that, as currently designed, is going to generate more traffic and further entrench car dependence. One part of the plan worth keeping, if the highway is not re-routed entirely, is the “cover” proposed for three blocks of the highway in Elyria Swansea. The public can weigh in on […]

Denver’s Regional Planners Target Timid Goal for Traffic Safety

By David Sachs | Jun 8, 2015 | 5 Comments

When it comes to improving traffic safety, the Denver Regional Council of Governments is following the lead of the Colorado Department of Transportation and setting the bar low. DRCOG, the regional planning organization responsible for doling out federal transportation funding, is working on Metro Vision 2040, a draft document meant to guide regional planning for the next 25 […]

CDOT Relied on Absurd Traffic Projections to Make the Case for Widening I-70

By David Sachs | Jun 3, 2015 | 3 Comments

To justify widening I-70, the Colorado Department of Transportation used traffic projections that are completely out of step with the last decade of observed travel patterns in the Denver region. CDOT wants to spend an estimated $1.8 billion widening I-70 from six lanes to 10 lanes between I-25 and Tower Road. In its draft environmental impact statement, CDOT […]

Mayor Hancock’s Sheridan Blvd Plan: Feel Good, Do Nothing

By David Sachs | Jun 2, 2015 | 3 Comments

Anyone who’s walked down Sheridan Boulevard knows it’s a dangerous street where dirt mounds replace sidewalks, drivers ignore the 35 mph speed limit, and crossing the street means dodging five lanes of traffic. It’s a nightmare for pedestrians and the Colorado Department of Transportation knows it. But that’s not stopping them from widening lanes nearby. Between 2010 […]

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