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#StreetFail: Golfers Enjoy Luxurious Sidewalks While Bus Riders Take a Hike

By David Sachs | Jul 13, 2016 | 4 Comments

Here’s a sad joke on Colorado Boulevard. This bus stop near 38th Avenue on the edge of Park Hill Golf Course requires people to walk and wait on a ridge of lumpy dirt. Weeds, plants, and bushes create an impassable route for wheelchair users and a dangerous one for everyone else. The RTD stop is […]

Another Life Lost on Colfax — Don’t Blame the Victim, Blame Colorado DOT

By David Sachs | Jun 21, 2016 | 6 Comments

Colfax Avenue is affectionately known as the “longest, wickedest street in America” for its colorful places and unique people. But for people who walk on Colfax, the street is wicked in all the wrong ways. Drivers routinely run over people, and people on foot take their lives in their hands merely by crossing the street. The latest […]

Colorado DOT Claims Its Latest Seat Belt Campaign Saves Pedestrians

By David Sachs | Jun 16, 2016 | No Comments

Billboards reminding people to wear seat belts are not an innovative way to end traffic deaths, but they are an easy box to check. Colorado DOT’s latest iteration of the tired tactic comes in the form of a giant airbag downtown that warns drivers and passengers not to depend on said airbag to save their […]

Denver Police Rehash Pedestrian Safety Messages From the 1920s

By David Sachs | Jun 1, 2016 | 9 Comments

If you walk or bike in Denver and you’re worried about reckless, speeding drivers, the Denver Police Department has a message for you: Too bad, you’re on your own. DPD has been handing out cards to people walking and biking that rehash the same messages every American gets drilled into them starting in grade school. The […]

Protesters Confront Anthony Foxx About Denver’s Next Destructive Highway

By David Sachs | May 18, 2016 | No Comments

Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx recently delivered a major speech about the harm that freeway projects have caused cities, especially poorer neighborhoods that lacked the political power to stop or divert them. Nevertheless, Governor John Hickenlooper and his DOT are plowing ahead with a plan to double down on the mistakes of the past by widening I-70 by […]

Hickenlooper’s DOT Casts Itself as the Hero in I-70 Propaganda Film

By David Sachs | May 2, 2016 | No Comments

Colorado DOT has produced a half-hour documentary about Colorado DOT saving Elyria, Swansea, and Globeville from an old highway. How does Colorado DOT come to the rescue? By building an enormous new highway, of course! This 30-minute piece of propaganda, called “Changing Lanes,” cost taxpayers $88,000 to make. The film was produced to fulfill federal historic preservation requirements, […]

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