Eyes on the Street
Closing Public Restrooms During COVID Hurts Mobility
June 2, 2020
Video: New 15th Street ‘Corner Wedges’ Slow Drivers When They Turn Onto Bike Lane
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.
October 17, 2019
Eyes on the Street: Denver Must Do More to Protect Kids at Montbello Kindergarten
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.
October 2, 2019
Eyes on the Street: Denver Reduces Speed Limit on Evans Avenue
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.
August 30, 2019
Urban Isolation: Look at All the Land Denver Dedicates to Cars
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.
August 28, 2019
Commentary: Bird’s Invasion of Union Station Shows Need for Scooter Watchdog
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.
August 26, 2019
Eyes on the Street: No Sidewalk on Park Hill Route to 40th & Colorado Station
This video chronicles the the lack of a sidewalk East 35th Avenue at Colorado. The street is a major pedestrian thoroughfare for people in Northeast Park Hill to get to 40th & Colorado Station.
August 14, 2019
Video: 17th & Lafayette Construction Puts Parking Before Pedestrians
Another construction company has blocked a sidewalk, endangering pedestrians on a stretch of 17th Stree in the City Park West neighborhood next to the Denver Bicycle Cafe.
August 2, 2019
Eyes on the Street: Denver Public Works Builds 3 Traffic Circles on 35th After Years of Planning
On Tuesday, the traffic circle on 35th Avenue and Raleigh Street in West Highland was already calming car speeds a day after Denver Public Works installed it.
August 21, 2018
Eyes on the Street: 19th and 20th Avenues Go Two-Way — Plus Protected Bike Lanes Uptown
Denver Public Works repurposes a car lane for people on bikes. Grant and Logan streets will go two-way later this spring.
April 19, 2018
