street design

This video chronicles the the lack of a sidewalk East 35th Avenue at Colorado. The street is a major pedestrian thoroughfare for people in Northeast Park Hill to get to 40th & Colorado Station. 

A 49% increase in traffic fatalities highlights how little Mayor Hancock’s administration has achieved in the three years since it adopted a Vision Zero Action Plan, which aims to end all traffic fatalities by 2030.

A 58-year-old pedestrian was killed by a teen drag racer going around 60 miles per hour on W. Alameda Avenue — one of many known high-speed killing zones in the Mile High City that officials can’t get under control.

Volunteers at Silverman Park in Montbello staged a “pop-up traffic calming demonstration” on Saturday. They wanted to show how simple, low-cost safety improvements could improve children’s access to the park — and how a dangerous street nearby keeps people away.

Visitors to Cheesman park are doing it all wrong. A few weeks ago, at least a dozen signs popped up right in the middle of informal trails where people run and walk. They direct people to use official paths. But pedestrian advocates say that such paths show where people want to go and that officials should respond by building formal trails in those locations.

This year, drivers have already killed 26 people, far outnumbering the 15 traffic fatalities at this point last year.

This is a special edition to our series of interviews with candidates for Denver mayor in the May 2019 municipal election.

The 16th Street Mall will soon get a major renovation that will spruce up an iconic, but increasingly embarrassing part of Denver. The upgrade will make the 1.2-mile thoroughfare a better place to get around and a more enjoyable place to hang out.

This is the last in a series of interviews with candidates for Denver mayor in the May 2019 municipal election.