Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Swansea

Globeville Landing Park, getting prepped to be dug up in February. Image: Ditch the Ditch

Reinforcements Are Coming in the Grassroots Fight Against I-70 Expansion

By David Sachs | May 15, 2017 | 15 Comments

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.

If CDOT gets its way, this Swansea Elementary playground will be on top of a highway instead of next to it. Image: David Sachs

Feds: CDOT’s Terrible I-70 Widening Isn’t Terrible Enough to Qualify as a Civil Rights Violation

By David Sachs | Apr 17, 2017 | 38 Comments

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.

Elyria, Swansea, and Globeville residents speak out against the widening of I-70. They wore bandannas to symbolize the air pollution the project will cause. Photo: David Sachs

North Denver Residents Make CDOT Director Bhatt Answer for I-70 Expansion

By David Sachs | Feb 17, 2017 | 27 Comments

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

By David Sachs | Jan 19, 2017 | 7 Comments

The FHWA approved the project even as it simultaneously investigates possible civil rights violations.

Local residents said the highway widening project "is intent on making us invisible." Photo: David Sachs

Elyria, Swansea Residents Tell CDOT: I-70 Widening Is a Nightmare

By David Sachs | Dec 2, 2016 | 3 Comments

Local residents said the highway widening project "is intent on making us invisible."

Neighborhood residents don't want more of this. Photo: David Sachs

Community Groups File Civil Rights Complaint Against CDOT’s I-70 Widening

By David Sachs | Nov 30, 2016

Governor John Hickenlooper’s transportation department wants to triple the width of a highway that has divided the neighborhoods of Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea since the 1960s. If you follow Streetsblog Denver, you know the $1.7 billion widening is shortsighted, physically unhealthy, and fiscally irresponsible. It might also be illegal. The people who live near the […]

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