Colfax
A Low-Tech Suggestion for Transportation Safety: Stop Widening City Streets
Colorado Department of Transportation Director Shailen Bhatt on Wednesday announced a $20 million initiative to outfit the state’s roads with cutting edge technology. His goal: Eliminate roadway deaths and congestion by asking tech ventures to step in and help solve problems. The initiative, dubbed “RoadX,” will contract out the development of high-tech solutions to road troubles. Semi-autonomous vehicles, for … Continued
October 29, 2015
Hancock Makes Room for Colfax BRT in 2016 Budget
Denver has studied bus rapid transit (BRT) on East Colfax Avenue for a long time, and now it looks like the city is ready to take concrete steps to make it happen. Mayor Michael Hancock’s budget sets aside $1.2 million to design the BRT route, which would connect downtown Denver with Aurora over a nine-mile span. … Continued
October 5, 2015
Meet Hank, the Guy CDOT Created to Scold People Who Get Hit By Drivers
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 … Continued
August 21, 2015
East Colfax BID Takes Initiative on Designing a Better Street
As demand for complete streets outpaces funding and political will from city agencies, residents are taking street design into their own hands. The relatively young Colfax Mayfair Business Improvement District is Denver’s latest example. Colfax Avenue has long functioned primarily as a thoroughfare for motorists, to the detriment of business owners and people walking and biking. Basic infrastructure like … Continued
August 10, 2015
WalkDenver Wants to Improve Colfax By Showing Off Its Human Face
Colfax Avenue: the “longest, wickedest street in America.” For a while now, it’s been becoming less like a state highway for cars, and more like a vibrant, urban street for people. Yet it’s far from the pedestrian paradise that WalkDenver, the city’s preeminent pedestrian advocacy group, envisions. The group has long focused its attention on the city’s … Continued
July 29, 2015
When Streets Aren’t Designed for Safe Biking, People on Bikes Get Hurt
The man killed on his bike yesterday evening near the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Colfax Avenue was riding on the wrong side of the street when a driver hit him, according to early reports from the Denver Police Department. “The preliminary investigation indicates that it appears the biker was riding southbound on a northbound lane on Colorado,” … Continued
July 15, 2015