Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Swansea

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Commentary: I-270 Expansion Will Harm Latino Communities, Increase Air Pollution, and Accelerate Climate Change

By Allen Cowgill | Feb 23, 2021 | No Comments

Allen Cowgill: Expanding I-270 will increase pollution in neighborhoods inhabited mostly by people of color and could accelerate climate change by encouraging more people to drive.

Mayoral Candidate Kalyn Heffernan: The Streetsblog Interview

By Andy Bosselman | Apr 19, 2019 | 2 Comments

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

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.

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