Elyria, Swansea Residents Tell CDOT: I-70 Widening Is a Nightmare
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Local residents said the highway widening project "is intent on making us invisible."
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Community Groups File Civil Rights Complaint Against CDOT’s I-70 Widening
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Governor John Hickenlooper’s transportation department wants to triple the width of a highway that has divided the neighborhoods of Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea since the 1960s. If you follow Streetsblog Denver, you know the $1.7 billion widening is shortsighted, physically unhealthy, and fiscally irresponsible. It might also be illegal. The people who live near the […]
A Highway Divides It: Delay in I-70 Expansion Gives Pause to Ponder Options
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Between the daily headlines shouting out Millennial takeovers and Denver’s housing shortage, you’ve probably heard about the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) plan to widen I-70 by four lanes between I-25 and Tower Road. At $1.7 billion and about 12 miles long, the project is hard to miss. It’s massive in cost and scope. It […]
Hancock Puts Rosy Spin on I-70 Widening in His State of the City Speech
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About 25 miles east of Denver’s urban core, across acres and acres of sprawl and rural fields, Mayor Michael Hancock delivered his annual “State of the City” address at Denver International Airport today. Hancock acknowledged that many residents aren’t reaping the benefits of Denver’s economic growth. Nodding to the city’s homelessness epidemic and housing shortage, he announced […]
Today: Speak Up to Save North Denver From the I-70 Widening
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If you don’t want a wider I-70 cutting through north Denver neighborhoods, you’ll want to head over to City Hall tonight. Advocates fighting the I-70 expansion want to pack City Council chambers for a public hearing about a drainage project tied to the highway widening. The project forces residents to pay for flood mitigation that wouldn’t be such a risk […]
Highways Wrecked Cities 60 Years Ago — Has Denver Learned Anything Since?
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Here’s a video by Vox that offers a breezy history of highways and how the government rammed them through cities — usually at the expense of disadvantaged neighborhoods that lacked political power. Denver knows how that worked out. Residents of Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea have dealt with the pollution, noise, and blight of I-70 since the 1960s. Now Governor John Hickenlooper’s […]