Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about I-70

Opponents of CDOT’s I-70 Widening File Suit Against the Federal Highway Administration

By David Sachs | Jul 7, 2017 | 7 Comments

In February, Colorado Department of Transportation Director Shailen Bhatt told a group of people fighting the widening of I-70 through north Denver neighborhoods to "sue us." The advocates took his advice.

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.

CDOT’s Blind Spot — Wider Highways and New Tech Won’t Cure Congestion

By David Sachs | Mar 6, 2017 | 10 Comments

CDOT Executive Shailen Bhatt told north Denver residents during a public meeting last month that more lanes will actually improve air quality.

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.

I-70 has long divided neighborhoods, and CDOT wants to make it wider. Image: CDOT

I-70 Earns National Notoriety for Blighting Denver Neighborhoods

By David Sachs | Jan 30, 2017 | 14 Comments

Tearing down I-70 in north Denver neighborhoods and replacing it with a tree-lined boulevard would help mend the scars created by the freeway in the 1960s. That's why the Congress for New Urbanism included I-70 on its new list of "Freeways Without Futures."

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