Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about DPW

Coming Soon: Parking-Protected Bike Lanes on Arapahoe, Lawrence Streets

By David Sachs | Aug 7, 2015 | 3 Comments

Denver Public Works has been criticized for picking low-hanging fruit when it comes to designing bike infrastructure, but it’s safe to say the parking-protected bike lanes coming to Lawrence and Arapahoe streets are a bit higher up in the tree. Even better, they’ll probably be fully built by the end of October. Reps from DPW’s bike projects department […]

Denver Police and DPW Pass the Buck on Bike Lane Enforcement

By David Sachs | Aug 5, 2015 | 5 Comments

It’s clearly against the law for motor vehicle drivers to obstruct a bike lane in Denver, but no city agency is making enforcement a priority. Cars and trucks parked in bike lanes are a consistent problem, so Streetsblog Denver wanted to find out how many tickets have been written for obstructing bicyclists’ right to the lane. Multiple ordinances in Denver’s municipal […]

Can Tim O’Brien Fill Dennis Gallagher’s Very Large Shoes?

By David Sachs | Aug 4, 2015 | No Comments

It appears that the office tasked with watchdogging Denver’s strong-mayor form of government is done holding the city’s feet to the fire over its agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation that commits $83 million to widening I-70 in exchange for badly needed flood protection. Former Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher understood that making essential infrastructure upgrades contingent on a highway […]

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 […]

Gallagher: Under Hancock, Denver’s Bike Network a Priority in Name Only

By David Sachs | Jul 16, 2015 | 2 Comments

If Mayor Michael Hancock and his Department of Public Works don’t set aside funding for Denver’s plan to build a comprehensive bike network, it might as well not exist. That’s the message Denver City Auditor Dennis Gallagher sent to DPW Manager Jose Cornejo in a scathing report released today [PDF]. City leaders often boast about Denver Moves, the 2011 framework […]

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