Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about city council

Now It’s Up to City Council to Solve Denver’s Sidewalk Woes

By David Sachs | Apr 1, 2016 | 1 Comment

After three rounds of testimony from people demanding decent sidewalks, the City Council’s Sidewalk Working Group will try to fix the dysfunctional policies that have contributed to Denver’s Swiss cheese network of crumbling sidewalks. At least one in four of all trips in Denver are less than one mile, according to the Denver Regional Council of Governments — those are trips that people can walk […]

Wheelchair Users to City Council: We Need Sidewalks to Live Life

By David Sachs | Feb 25, 2016 | 1 Comment

Stewart Tucker Lundy uses a wheelchair to travel Denver’s streets. On Wednesday, he wanted the City Council to understand how shoddy, slippery, and altogether nonexistent sidewalks affect him and others who can’t walk, so he described his plight from a windshield perspective. He asked council members to recall last week, when a rockslide closed part of I-70 in Glenwood Canyon. […]

Denver’s Sidewalk Policy Is Designed to Fail, But That May Be Changing

By David Sachs | Jan 28, 2016 | 4 Comments

It’s safe to say that Denver City Council members cannot plead ignorance on the city’s embarrassing walking infrastructure, following a meeting Wednesday where reps from Denver Public Works briefed lawmakers on the state of the city’s sidewalks. It was the first gathering of the Sidewalk Working Group, a committee led by Councilman Paul Kashmann and formed at the […]