Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Globeville

Peña Blvd. viewed from the A Line on April 23, 2016. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

This post is supported by Readers like you. Give now.

Update: Council Approves Denver Airport Road Widening That Would Make Traffic Worse

By Andy Bosselman | Jul 12, 2019 | 20 Comments

A plan to widen the road to Denver International Airport, which would make traffic worse and wipe out the city’s newly-minted goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, will get a vote from the Denver City Council on Monday.

I-70 traffic viewed from the Purina plant on Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. Image: CDOT.

Oakland Plans to Tear Down Major Freeway While Denver Keeps Expanding I-70

By Andy Bosselman | Apr 18, 2019 | 38 Comments

Why is Denver still expanding I-70? The move to tear down I-980 in Oakland shows that forward-thinking officials elsewhere get it: The problems associated with mega-motorways in urban neighborhoods outweigh the benefits.

This Interstate 70 viaduct cuts through the Denver neighborhoods of Elyria, Swansea, and Globeville. It will be torn down expanded to a 14-lane sunken freeway. Photo: CDOT.

Report: Expanding I-70 Is out of Step With Polis’ Goals

By Andy Bosselman | Apr 3, 2019 | 37 Comments

A new report calls for the removal of America's 10 worst urban highways, including Interstate 70 through Denver’s mostly Latino neighborhoods of Elyria, Swansea, and Globeville. Local activists see the report as a chance to renew their calls to stop the project — especially after electing Gov. Polis, who campaigned on cutting vehicle emissions and increasing mass transit.

Globeville Landing Park, getting prepped to be dug up in February. Image: Ditch the Ditch

Reinforcements Are Coming in the Grassroots Fight Against I-70 Expansion

By David Sachs | May 15, 2017 | 15 Comments

The Center for Health, Environment, and Justice has joined the Elyria Swansea Neighborhood Association in the fight against a wider I-70, granting $5,000 to the cause.

If CDOT gets its way, this Swansea Elementary playground will be on top of a highway instead of next to it. Image: David Sachs

Feds: CDOT’s Terrible I-70 Widening Isn’t Terrible Enough to Qualify as a Civil Rights Violation

By David Sachs | Apr 17, 2017 | 38 Comments

The Federal Highway Administration last week decided to double down on the tradition of dismissing civil rights complaints from residents who want the Colorado Department of Transportation to nix plans for a wider I-70 in their backyards.

Elyria, Swansea, and Globeville residents speak out against the widening of I-70. They wore bandannas to symbolize the air pollution the project will cause. Photo: David Sachs

North Denver Residents Make CDOT Director Bhatt Answer for I-70 Expansion

By David Sachs | Feb 17, 2017 | 27 Comments

Thursday night at Swansea Recreation Center, opponents of the I-70 expansion took over CDOT's open house, wearing black bandanas over their faces to symbolize the pollution they'd breathe should the agency dig a highway trench in contaminated soil.

Show More Stories