Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Eyes on the Street

Closing Public Restrooms During COVID Hurts Mobility

By Kirsten Lambert | Jun 2, 2020 | No Comments

The lack of public restrooms available during the pandemic is a major challenge for families with young kids, pregnant people, delivery workers, and others. How can we address that?

A pedestrian crosses 15th Street in Downtown Denver as a vehicle slows before turning around a newly-installed corner wedge safety treatment. Photo: Andy Bosselman

Video: New 15th Street ‘Corner Wedges’ Slow Drivers When They Turn Onto Bike Lane

By Andy Bosselman | Oct 17, 2019 | No Comments

The Department of Public works installed rubber curbs and plastic posts to create “corner wedges” within five intersections on the 15th Street bikeway downtown earlier this month. The pilot project aims to slow drivers as they turn left at intersections, helping to ensure they yield to bicyclists and pedestrians.

Bella Rivera holds the hand of her mother Esther on her their way to school. "My daughter knows you need to hold onto me. Drivers don't care." Photo: Andy Bosselman

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Eyes on the Street: Denver Must Do More to Protect Kids at Montbello Kindergarten

By Andy Bosselman | Oct 2, 2019 | No Comments

A city council member used the annual Walk to School Day photo op to demand that the city do more to protect kids when the best it could do was install a crosswalk 20 months after a child was hit in front of the Escalante-Biggs Academy in Montbello.

Department of Public Works employee Ernie Armijo hands a new speed limit sign to Danny Gonzales before it was installed on Evans Avenue Aug. 30. Photo: Andy Bosselman

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Eyes on the Street: Denver Reduces Speed Limit on Evans Avenue

By Andy Bosselman | Aug 30, 2019 | 6 Comments

Today Denver reduced the speed limit from 35 to 30 mph on a stretch of East Evans Avenue from Federal Boulevard to Huron Street. The safety measure is one of Denver's efforts to cut serious injuries and fatalities on the city's streets, but most drivers disregarded the new speed limit.

The intersection at East 35th Ave. and Quebec St. Image: Google Maps

Urban Isolation: Look at All the Land Denver Dedicates to Cars

By Jonathon Stalls | Aug 28, 2019 | 4 Comments

This short video, filmed at at 35th & Quebec, invites you into just how much real estate Denver gives to the automobile. And how people-thriving places and spaces live at the bottom of the list.

Bird contractors placed 13 scooters in the middle of a pedestrian thoroughfare at Union Station on Aug. 15. Photo: Andy Bosselman

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Commentary: Bird’s Invasion of Union Station Shows Need for Scooter Watchdog

By Andy Bosselman | Aug 26, 2019 | 9 Comments

Bird's aggressive placement of scooters at Union Station demonstrates Denver's lax enforcement of existing rules and the need of a watchdog agency to police scooter companies.

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