Hickenlooper’s Hypocrisy on Highway Expansion on Full Display in 2008 Documentary
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If the governor stuck to the same transportation policy he espoused as mayor, the widening of I-70 would be dead.
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Hickenlooper Insists That Widening I-70 Is Good for Denver’s Health and Air Quality
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Expanding I-70 requires digging up contaminated soil from a Superfund site in the country's most polluted ZIP code. But Hickenlooper stuck to his claims that adding more car lanes will be good for our air quality and our health.
Will Colorado’s Next Transportation Ballot Measure Prioritize Transit?
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The governor framed the ballot measure as a roads and transit package, but lawmakers haven't nailed down specifics.
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."
After I-25 Was Widened, It Filled Back Up With Cars in Less Than 5 Years
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Colorado spent $1.2 billion to widen I-25, and all it got was more traffic and no congestion relief. Why does Governor John Hickenlooper think that widening I-70 will be any different? In this chart, you can see why spending billions to widen highways is a shortsighted, ineffective way to deal with people’s travel needs. About two years after the […]
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 […]