safety
Cyclists Can Roll Through Stop Signs in Thornton, a First in Denver Metro
A Denver suburb has just approved a controversial safety plan that will allow cyclists to slow-roll through stops signs — a practice that studies show keeps cyclists safer than coming to a full stop. Bicycle advocates hope that other cities — including Denver — will soon follow Thornton’s lead.
February 15, 2019
Do Medians Actually Make Streets Safer for Pedestrians?
Some transportation engineers believe that raised medians -- concrete strips dividing one side of a street from the other -- are all you need to make a street safe for walking. But data from Denver Public Works shows it's not that simple.
January 5, 2018
What Good Is New Bike Safety Tech If CDOT Still Won’t Build Safe Streets?
The agency is funding "innovative solutions" for bike safety — the ideas aren't bad, but they're no substitute for agency action to redesign dangerous streets.
May 24, 2017
Remembering Damian Solis, 11, Killed Crossing the Street
A child has been killed in an area known by officials to be deadly. To have government reps tell it, no one is responsible except Solis, who is gone. Naturally, the focus is on a barrier to stop people from crossing the street, instead of slower speeds and safer crossings.
May 4, 2017
Remembering Danny Bramer, the Fourth Pedestrian Killed on Denver’s Streets This Year
Bramer's untimely death represented the third person killed while walking Federal this year — out of four total pedestrian deaths.
May 4, 2017
Cars Are Not Sentient Beings With Free Will
We've been through this a million times before — it's a matter of accuracy, not semantics.
May 2, 2017
Students Ask Hancock to Overhaul Dangerous High-Speed Streets
Denver students rallied with advocates today to demand that Mayor Michael Hancock save lives by redesigning the city's dangerous, high-speed streets. At the City and County Building, students joined the Vision Zero Coalition, headed by WalkDenver, to ask Hancock to provide Denver Public Works an annual funding stream for street redesigns.
February 14, 2017
CDOT Director Shailen Bhatt on Rising Traffic Deaths: Not Our Fault
Traffic fatalities in Colorado have spiked 24 percent in two years, and pedestrian and cyclist deaths have reached a 15-year high. But Colorado DOT chief Shailen Bhatt won't redesign streets to reduce the death toll.
February 1, 2017
Traffic Deaths Are on the Rise, and Denver’s Still Waiting for a Safety Plan From Mayor Hancock
Back in February 2016, Mayor Hancock said he was committed to Vision Zero, the goal of ending traffic deaths in the city. But Denverites are still waiting for a concrete street safety plan from the Hancock administration, and the human toll keeps rising.
January 10, 2017
In Memory of Those Who Lost Their Lives to Dangerous Denver Streets
The names and faces of the people walking and biking who needlessly lost their lives just trying to get around Denver this year (so far).
November 21, 2016
