Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Pedestrian Safety

CDOT’s “Fred Estrian” Cartoons Won’t Save People From Its Deadly Streets

By David Sachs | Sep 15, 2016 | 9 Comments

https://youtu.be/yEfX-F32lJk From Colorado DOT — the same state roads agency that brought you Hank, the lovable idiot who blamed pedestrians for getting hit by drivers, and then promptly axed the tone-deaf campaign — comes a brand new way to not die while crossing the street: “Fred Estrian.” Get it? Fred Estrian is the face of […]

A Driver, Not a Car, Killed Colleen O’Connor. It Was a Crash, Not an Accident.

By David Sachs | Sep 2, 2016 | 7 Comments

Colleen O’Connor’s family, friends, and Denver Post colleagues are remembering her 60-year-long life after a driver named Jesus Carreno, 23, ended it Wednesday night on 1st Avenue near Downing Street. Her death marks the ninth pedestrian killed this year by a driver in Denver. O’Connor recently wrote about street improvements on Broadway meant to make […]

Streets That Encourage Speeding Are Streets That Encourage Drag Racing

By David Sachs | Aug 31, 2016 | 3 Comments

An unidentified 17-year-old kid without a drivers license killed Nicholas Richling, 26, because he wanted to drive as fast as possible — faster than his drag-racing opponent — on Alameda Avenue on Sunday evening. Afterward, Denver PD Sgt. Mike Farr, a crash investigator, pointed to a street design that encourages speeding. “Alameda is a straight […]

Denver Council Weighs Three Options to Fix Broken Sidewalk Network

By David Sachs | Aug 11, 2016 | 10 Comments

Yesterday the City Council finally dug into the question of how to complete Denver’s patchwork sidewalk network. Sidewalk construction and maintenance currently falls entirely on individual property owners. It’s a policy designed to fail, with many people unable to afford sidewalks, and the quality of the pedestrian environment suffering as a result. People pay with their lives. […]

WalkDenver Wants to Improve Colfax By Showing Off Its Human Face

By David Sachs | Jul 29, 2015 | 1 Comment

Colfax Avenue: the “longest, wickedest street in America.” For a while now, it’s been becoming less like a state highway for cars, and more like a vibrant, urban street for people. Yet it’s far from the pedestrian paradise that WalkDenver, the city’s preeminent pedestrian advocacy group, envisions. The group has long focused its attention on the city’s […]