Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Shailen Bhatt

The One Person Who Can Stop the I-70 Widening Is John Hickenlooper

By David Sachs | Feb 24, 2016 | 8 Comments

While Colorado DOT seems hell-bent on spending billions of dollars to widen I-70, it’s not too late to stop the project. If Governor John Hickenlooper says the word, the city can still escape unscathed from the state’s efforts to ram a super-wide below-grade highway through north Denver. Going through with the highway widening will have long-lasting consequences, saddling the […]

Road Builders Want to Subsidize Driving By Making Other Stuff Cost More

By David Sachs | Feb 18, 2016 | 1 Comment

The Colorado Contractors Association wants to raise the state sales sales tax to pay for roads (and maybe some transit, but definitely roads). The CCA wants to get the tax proposal on the November ballot. In other words, everyone will pay more for consumer goods in order to subsidize driving. Basics like clothing will get more expensive […]

Colorado DOT Director Shailen Bhatt Calls for Raising State Gas Tax

By David Sachs | Feb 12, 2016 | 2 Comments

Colorado DOT Executive Director Shailen Bhatt wants drivers to pay their fair share for the roads they use, he said at the Colorado Bicycle Summit on Tuesday. To do that, he’d like to see a higher gas tax on the state and federal level. “Raising the gas tax is absolutely the right thing to do,” Bhatt said. […]

Mikael Colville-Andersen on Building Effective Bike Lanes: Just Do It

By David Sachs | Feb 10, 2016 | 1 Comment

It’s really not that difficult to build bike infrastructure so that city streets are safe and efficient for everyone. That’s what Mikael Colville-Andersen, the “bicycle urbanism” expert who founded Copenhagenize, wants Colorado to know. “The greatest thing about bike infrastructure today is very, very simple,” Colville-Andersen told the crowd of about 250 at the Colorado Bicycle […]

Denver Post on the Spike in Colorado Traffic Deaths: Ho-Hum

By David Sachs | Jan 25, 2016 | No Comments

A Denver Post editorial published Friday evening opposing stricter seat belt laws provides a troubling glimpse into how Denver’s paper of record views traffic deaths. Last year the number of people who lost their lives hit an eight-year high of 545, the fourth year in a row that traffic fatalities increased. Here’s the complacent response from the paper: The spike last year […]

As Traffic Deaths Spike, Colorado DOT Says Zilch About Fixing Deadly Streets

By David Sachs | Jan 22, 2016 | 2 Comments

In the inaugural year of Colorado DOT’s timid Toward Zero Deaths initiative, 545 people were killed on roads throughout the state. That’s a stark spike in fatalities — 57 more, or 10 percent, than in 2014, and the most since 2008. The number of people killed while walking or biking rose from 74 to 78. More than a quarter […]

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