Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Denver Public Works

Driving Speeds on Broadway, Lincoln Help Make Case for Protected Bike Lane

By David Sachs | Nov 11, 2015 | 5 Comments

On Tuesday city transportation planners presented more than 100 members of the public with early results of a months-long study of the Broadway/Lincoln corridor. They offered some options to help achieve Mayor Michael Hancock’s goals for a more mobile city, and asked for input from residents and business owners. According to the study Denver’s most important […]

Eyes on the Street: Denver’s First Parking-Protected Bike Lanes Begin

By David Sachs | Oct 14, 2015 | No Comments

The Department of Public Works began installing a pretty monumental piece of the city’s bike network yesterday — parking-protected bike lanes on Arapahoe and Lawrence streets. When complete in mid-November, the bike lanes will provide a downtown route for about a mile between Auraria Campus and 24th Street, with intersection treatments that will make it safer to […]

Two-Day Broadway Bike Lane Is Pre-Cursor to Longer Demo

By David Sachs | Aug 3, 2015 | 5 Comments

We received a lot of feedback after last week’s news that the Department of Public Works will test out a protected, two-way bike lane on South Broadway with a “pop-up” bike lane during the last weekend of September. The pop-up design will run two blocks, from 1st Avenue to Bayaud Street, and will likely feature basic safeguards like cones and signage. Some […]

Retrofit Could Make Intersection of 16th and Broadway Less Chaotic

By David Sachs | Jul 23, 2015 | No Comments

The intersection of 16th and Broadway: A cluster of cars, huge buses making left turns, mall shuttles every 90 seconds, and awkward diagonal crossings for pedestrians and people on bikes trying to connect to the 16th Street Mall and 15th Street bike lane. It’s intimidating, but may soon become less so. The Denver Business Journal reports that the […]