Eulois Cleckley

Denver wants its own Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, shifting the Department of Public Works' primary focus to transportation — while keeping its duties over over solid waste and water treatment.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock gave uninspiring speeches at Bicycle Colorado’s Moving People Forward conference today in Denver. But the two followed Janette Sadik-Khan, the former New York City transportation commissioner whose book “Streetfight” calls for an “urban revolution.”  (Read the Streetsblog Denver interview.) Sadik-Khan helped the Big Apple transform its streets from … Continued

The Denveright transit plan was released today. Here's what it does and doesn't do.

Finite street space is a fact of city life, so transportation officials might as well be clear and forthright about how to make the best use of it.

The auto industry probably loves Colorado’s enthusiastic embrace of automated vehicles. But if decision-makers bet on robo-cars as a transportation panacea, to the exclusion of proven urban transportation solutions, they risk repeating past mistakes that hollowed out urban centers and deepened our dependence on cars. We can make our city streets safer and more efficient today … Continued

There's at least one thing that differentiates Eulouis Cleckley, the new director of Denver Public Works, from most local civil servants: He doesn't have a car. Cleckley moved here from Houston without one.

Eulois Cleckley will helm Denver Public Works, Mayor Michael Hancock announced Tuesday, starting on December 11. Cleckley replaces interim chief George Delaney, who took over following the retirement of Jose Cornejo in May.