Robin Kniech
What Denver Council Member Robin Kniech Learned From Relying on RTD
Kniech experienced the everyday indignities, inconveniences, and outright hazards that Denver transit riders know all too well.
December 5, 2016
Denver Council Weighs Three Options to Fix Broken Sidewalk Network
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. … Continued
August 11, 2016
Mayor Hancock, City Council Have No Excuse to Shortchange Transit
Mayor Michael Hancock has been quick to tout Denver’s status as a post-recession boom town, but not so quick to use the city’s bulging purse to fund transit and active transportation. That should change, if elected officials follow through on their recently announced budget priorities. According to the City Council’s budget priorities, “transit infrastructure and safety” top the list. The City … Continued
September 8, 2015
CDOT Will Knowingly Use Obsolete Projections to Rationalize I-70 Widening
Last month, Streetsblog wrote about the absurd traffic projections that the Colorado Department of Transportation is using to justify expanding I-70 from six lanes to 10 through northeast Denver. Last night, I-70 project director Tony DeVito admitted that CDOT will knowingly use old traffic modeling to make a case for the $1.2 billion project, even though there’s newer data available. DeVito spoke … Continued
July 7, 2015
Electeds Heading to San Fran With Eyes on Vision Zero
Once a year the Downtown Denver Partnership leads a group of decision makers to another city, hoping the change of pace will lead to a change of place in Denver. The hope is that seeing how other cities do things will demystify big ideas and give leaders an appetite to try them here. It’s a sort of … Continued
June 15, 2015