Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about I-70

The One Person Who Can Stop the I-70 Widening Is John Hickenlooper

By David Sachs | Feb 24, 2016 | 8 Comments

While Colorado DOT seems hell-bent on spending billions of dollars to widen I-70, it’s not too late to stop the project. If Governor John Hickenlooper says the word, the city can still escape unscathed from the state’s efforts to ram a super-wide below-grade highway through north Denver. Going through with the highway widening will have long-lasting consequences, saddling the […]

Affordable Housing Advocate: CDOT Must Pay for Impact of I-70 Widening

By David Sachs | Feb 19, 2016 | 2 Comments

Most DOTs will tell you it’s their job to build roads and highways, plain and simple. Whatever gets in the way of that, well, that’s not their problem. In the case of Colorado DOT’s I-70 expansion, it’s residents of Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea who are in the way. At the project’s onset, CDOT will bulldoze 56 homes and 18 […]

The Denver Post Cheers for a Car-Choked Future

By David Sachs | Feb 11, 2016 | 5 Comments

Some people think widening highways is just an inherently good idea — the more space for traffic, the better. Count the Denver Post in that camp. The Post recently threw its wholehearted support behind widening I-70 by four lanes. Believing that wider highways will fix traffic problems is like believing that loosening your belt will fix your waistline. We […]

North Denver Residents to CDOT: Take a Hike With Your I-70 Widening Plan

By David Sachs | Feb 4, 2016 | 7 Comments

The Colorado Department of Transportation and the City and County of Denver have tied so many projects to the repair of an aging I-70 viaduct that residents of Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea have to support adding four lanes to the highway in order to get basic amenities that are commonplace in richer neighborhoods. In order […]

Tell CDOT Why Widening I-70 in North Denver Is a Bad Idea

By David Sachs | Feb 1, 2016 | No Comments

The fight over Colorado DOT’s billion-dollar-plus plan to widen I-70 is coming to a head. Many residents, especially of north Denver where the highway has spliced neighborhoods for years, have spoken against this project since around the turn of the century. They’ll bear the brunt of the additional noise and pollution, but widening the highway […]

Denver Can Have Great Neighborhood Streets If CDOT Tears Down I-70

By David Sachs | Jan 29, 2016 | 10 Comments

Unite North Metro Denver has an idea about what to do with I-70. Instead of widening the highway and pumping more traffic into the city like Colorado DOT wants, tear it down and replace it with an urban boulevard, reconnecting the urban fabric of Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea. CDOT is pushing its billion-dollar-plus plan to reconstruct and […]

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