Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about protected bike lanes

Coming Soon: Parking-Protected Bike Lanes on Arapahoe, Lawrence Streets

By David Sachs | Aug 7, 2015 | 3 Comments

Denver Public Works has been criticized for picking low-hanging fruit when it comes to designing bike infrastructure, but it’s safe to say the parking-protected bike lanes coming to Lawrence and Arapahoe streets are a bit higher up in the tree. Even better, they’ll probably be fully built by the end of October. Reps from DPW’s bike projects department […]

What Denver’s Transportation Engineers Can Learn From Seattle

By David Sachs | Jul 6, 2015 | 1 Comment

Seattle is, in many ways, Denver’s most comparable peer city. Like the Mile High City, Seattle was built to move cars, but as it grows, the city is looking to retrofit its streets to move people via transit, biking, and walking. There’s a stark difference between the two cities’ approach, though. Seattle is backing up its talk with swift action made […]