street safety

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.

Colorado aims for more traffic deaths under a new federal program requiring them to set targets. The state shows a disappointing lack of ambition in keeping its own residents alive and healthy, said policy leaders at Transportation for America.

When careless drivers severely injure pedestrians, cyclists, police officers and other vulnerable road users, they will no longer drive away from the scene of a crash with nothing more than light penalty. Under Senate Bill 19-175, which Gov. Jared Polis signed into law this morning at the Denver Bicycle Cafe, Colorado became the 10th state to enact legislation that defines vulnerable road users and punishes drivers who hurt them more severely.

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

Careless drivers who seriously injure people will be taken off the roads under a bill passed Thursday by state lawmakers — the first time Colorado has decided to treat them differently from drivers who only damage property.

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

When bike advocates push for changes to the streets, they do no analysis on the impact it will have on inequality.

Drivers killed 35 percent more pedestrians in the U.S. than they did a decade ago — and in Colorado the number of fatalities grew by an astonishing 75 percent over a similar period. Population growth, people driving more miles per year, driving at night and the growing popularity of SUVs and smartphones are among the reasons why. To solve the problem, the design Denver's streets needs to change.

State Rep. Jovan Melton (D-Aurora) wants to ban red light cameras in all of Colorado. But his reckless position would cause more wrecks that would hurt and kill people — and the legislator doesn’t have his facts straight. In a recent interview with Denver7 he falsely claimed that the cameras do not cut injuries and fatalities.