Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about sidewalks

Chaffee Park’s Streets Need an Overhaul to Make Them Walkable

By David Sachs | Aug 31, 2015 | No Comments

Chaffee Park is a north Denver neighborhood scrunched between three highways. Like a lot of neighborhoods in the city, it suffers from street designs that prioritize the movement of car traffic over the safety of people. People who walk in the neighborhood know it’s a terrible and dangerous pedestrian environment. Now a new study maps out those problems block-by-block. […]

Meet the Crowdsourcing App That Promises to Improve Denver’s Sidewalks

By David Sachs | Jul 14, 2015 | No Comments

The City and County of Denver doesn’t have a dedicated funding stream for building and maintaining sidewalks, but WalkScope, a crowdsourcing tool that maps and rates Denver’s walking infrastructure, could be the springboard the city needs to change that. WalkScope allows anyone with access to a smart phone or computer to map the quality of […]

Denver Needs More Street Demos Like the One Planned for West Colfax

By David Sachs | Jul 8, 2015 | 2 Comments

Complete streets advocates are taking ownership of West Colfax by transforming part of it from a four-way car-centric raceway into a haven for pedestrians and people on bikes. It’ll be just a one-day demonstration — organizers describe it as a “lab” — but the idea is to spark a permanent redesign on the street by showing residents, city planners, […]

Public Works Needs to Design Brighton Boulevard With the Future in Mind

By David Sachs | Jul 2, 2015 | 2 Comments

In an open letter posted on WalkDenver’s website yesterday, Joel Noble challenged the Department of Public Works and their consultants to be bold while redesigning Brighton Boulevard for walking, biking, and transit. Noble wrote as a resident, but he is also a Planning Board member, the president of Curtis Park Neighbors, and co-chair of the INC Transportation Committee. (Full disclosure: he has […]

It’s Official: Shoddy Streets Make Walking in Westwood a Hazardous Mess

By David Sachs | Jun 30, 2015 | No Comments

Livable streets advocates in Westwood, one of Denver’s worst areas for walking and biking, are taking action as the city develops a new plan for their neighborhood. Westwood Unidos, a neighborhood organization, and PlaceMatters, a think tank for city planning, performed a “sidewalk audit” on Saturday. Residents and volunteers walked the southwest Denver neighborhood, took pictures, and recorded […]