Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about safety

Does Sheridan Boulevard need sidewalks and protected bike lanes? Nah. How about some lasers. Photo: David Sachs

What Good Is New Bike Safety Tech If CDOT Still Won’t Build Safe Streets?

By David Sachs | May 24, 2017 | 5 Comments

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.

Damian Solis was in fifth grade at Rocky Mountain Prep Creekside. Photo: GoFundMe

Remembering Damian Solis, 11, Killed Crossing the Street

By David Sachs | May 4, 2017 | 6 Comments

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.

7th and Federal — cross at your own risk. Image: Google Maps

Remembering Danny Bramer, the Fourth Pedestrian Killed on Denver’s Streets This Year

By David Sachs | May 4, 2017 | 1 Comment

Bramer's untimely death represented the third person killed while walking Federal this year — out of four total pedestrian deaths.

Cars Are Not Sentient Beings With Free Will

By David Sachs | May 2, 2017 | 2 Comments

We've been through this a million times before — it's a matter of accuracy, not semantics.

Deyondrah Bridgeman, who was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver, asks Mayor Michael Hancock to redesign streets for slow speeds. Photo: David Sachs

Students Ask Hancock to Overhaul Dangerous High-Speed Streets

By David Sachs | Feb 14, 2017 | 2 Comments

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.

According to data from Denver PD, 43 people died walking on Denver's streets in 2015 and 2016. Image: CDOT

CDOT Director Shailen Bhatt on Rising Traffic Deaths: Not Our Fault

By David Sachs | Feb 1, 2017 | 17 Comments

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.

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