Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about pedestrians

Dangerous, Car-Centric Streets Put People at Risk, Not Density

By David Sachs | Jun 5, 2015 | No Comments

The Denver Post ran a commentary today by Aaron Schwartz, recounting a regular day gone wrong: A car crash injured his son and pregnant wife, who were walking near East Alameda Avenue and South Monaco Parkway. It’s a moving story that should impel change, but the culprit is not, as the headline suggests, “high density.” Here is Schwartz’s diagnosis: Denver […]

Mayor Hancock’s Sheridan Blvd Plan: Feel Good, Do Nothing

By David Sachs | Jun 2, 2015 | 3 Comments

Anyone who’s walked down Sheridan Boulevard knows it’s a dangerous street where dirt mounds replace sidewalks, drivers ignore the 35 mph speed limit, and crossing the street means dodging five lanes of traffic. It’s a nightmare for pedestrians and the Colorado Department of Transportation knows it. But that’s not stopping them from widening lanes nearby. Between 2010 […]

The Legislature Killed Safe Routes to School Funding, So What’s Next?

By David Sachs | May 22, 2015 | No Comments

Pay raises for Colorado legislators, electronic traffic enforcement and student testing dominated state politics in the last session, overshadowing the casualty of a longstanding and successful program: Safe Routes to School. Some state funding remains for the 2015-2016 school year, but none for Denver. And after next year, no Colorado schools will have Safe Routes […]

The Blindspots in CDOT’s Latest Safety Campaign

By David Sachs | May 20, 2015 | 3 Comments

The Colorado Department of Transportation unveiled the conclusion to a provocative billboard campaign yesterday that reminds drivers and passengers to buckle up. You may have seen the ads around Denver over the last week with inscrutable phrases like “Brain Damage,” “Life or Death,” “Fatal Accident,” and “Windshield Ejection.” Those words are now crossed out with an image of a […]

Wes Marshall on How to Make Denver a Walkable City With Safe Streets

By David Sachs | May 19, 2015 | 2 Comments

When Steve Jobs built the iPod, he had his team design its remarkable look and intuitive function before asking them to cram the technology inside. That’s how CU Denver professor Wes Marshall thinks about Denver’s transition to becoming a 21st century transportation city — think big and then figure out the small stuff. Marshall is an engineer who thinks like […]

Denver Business Journal: Bike Lanes Are a Conspiracy Against Drivers

By David Sachs | May 18, 2015 | 9 Comments

Denver Business Journal Editor Neil Westergaard went old timey in a piece last Friday with the headline “Bikes are OK, but Denver plan goes too far.” The article was behind a pay wall for subscribers, but there are some excerpts below that give readers the gist. Westergaard frames the city’s efforts to improve conditions for bicycling as a […]

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