Mayoral Candidate Kalyn Heffernan: The Streetsblog Interview
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This is a special edition to our series of interviews with candidates for Denver mayor in the May 2019 municipal election.
Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Swansea
Reinforcements Are Coming in the Grassroots Fight Against I-70 Expansion
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The Center for Health, Environment, and Justice has joined the Elyria Swansea Neighborhood Association in the fight against a wider I-70, granting $5,000 to the cause.
Feds: CDOT’s Terrible I-70 Widening Isn’t Terrible Enough to Qualify as a Civil Rights Violation
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The Federal Highway Administration last week decided to double down on the tradition of dismissing civil rights complaints from residents who want the Colorado Department of Transportation to nix plans for a wider I-70 in their backyards.
North Denver Residents Make CDOT Director Bhatt Answer for I-70 Expansion
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Thursday night at Swansea Recreation Center, opponents of the I-70 expansion took over CDOT's open house, wearing black bandanas over their faces to symbolize the pollution they'd breathe should the agency dig a highway trench in contaminated soil.
Feds Approve CDOT Plan to Shove Wider I-70 Through Mostly Latino Neighborhoods
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The FHWA approved the project even as it simultaneously investigates possible civil rights violations.
Elyria, Swansea Residents Tell CDOT: I-70 Widening Is a Nightmare
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Local residents said the highway widening project "is intent on making us invisible."