Road Design Archives - Streetsblog Denver

Commentary: How a new emphasis on safer streets could drive big change in Colorado

Colorado's wowntowns, main streets, and the urban arterials that have become so many of our main streets should be vibrant community centers, but people need to feel safe accessing them, no matter how they get there.

May 4, 2021

Commentary: How a new emphasis on safer streets could drive big change in Colorado

Streetsblog USA |Automakers

Can An Automaker Help Your City Design a Better Intersection?

A potentially groundbreaking new tool could help give US planners key insights into the most dangerous segments of their road network – and how to fix them – with the click of a single button. The only problem? An automaker made it.

January 26, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Bicycle Infrastructure

Op Ed: The Most Important Bike Tech is…Street Design

New studies of Lisbon and Toronto offer the latest evidence for the power of safe infrastructure to encourage more cycling in cities — and speak to the perils of relying on historical data.

July 22, 2020

Streetsblog USA |history

Auto Right-of-Way Laws Are Where America Went Wrong

Before the widespread adoption of the automobile, every road user had to think critically about whose turn it was to go — and a pedestrian in a car's path *always* meant the driver had to stand down.

March 3, 2020

biking

Commentary: A City That Works for Everyone — Reflections on the Necessity of an Intersectional Urbanism

Robin Mazumder: When I speak out about urban issues, it is from my perspective as someone who experiences marginalization in some aspects of my identity as much as it is from my perspective as someone who has privilege.

February 7, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Oslo

Vision Zero! Norwegian Capital Completely Quashes Road Deaths

Secrets from Oslo, where the zero of Vision Zero is taken seriously.

January 2, 2020

#StreetFail

Hidden Safety Problems Keep Denver Kids From Walking and Biking

In this guest post, Wes Marshall, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Denver, reveals Denver-based research showing that crash data hides places where kids want to walk and bike. Related papers show how to identify places where kids already are, and how to create safer streets where they want to go — … Continued

November 26, 2019