Commentary: Feel the Love This Winter Bike to Work Day
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To many, “winter biking” sounds like an oxymoron. To Tenly Williams, it is pure love.
Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Quality of Life
RTD in Crisis Part 3: Here’s How to Fix RTD
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Poor management must be overcome. Inadequate funding needs to be addressed. And disinterested elected officials should be engaged. But RTD's problems have deeper roots.
RTD in Crisis Part 2: A Failure of Leadership
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A failure of leadership caused the current crisis at the Regional Transportation District. Gov. Polis, members of the Colorado General Assembly and RTD's board of directors are to blame.
There is Still Structural Racism in Transportation: Report
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Cities must include community members in planning, hire more diverse staff, and stop displacing residents to combat generations of structural racism in our car-dependent society that has long favored suburban commuters in single-family homes over poorer communities riven by highways and pollution, a new report argues. Smart Growth America’s report, “The State of Transportation and […]
Why are We Putting Up With Parking-Protected Bike Lanes?
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We called the Danish embassy in Washington, D.C. to get more information on whether Denmark considers parking-protected bike lanes a best practice and the woman who answered the phone laughed at us.
Seattle Sues To Keep Vehicle Registration Fees — And Save Transit
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Seattle leaders are not wasting any time to stymie a statewide ballot measure voters approved on Tuesday, announcing a lawsuit to block Initiative 976, which could drain tens of billions in transportation funding across the entire state by reducing annual vehicle registration fees. King County Executive Dow Constantine along with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and […]