Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about SWEEP

Bureaucracy Got You Down? Here’s a Guide to Making Colorado Streets Better

By David Sachs | | No Comments
Engineer-speak has the power to convolute simple concepts and disengage the very people public agencies are meant to serve. If you’re not in the transportation industry, it might be confusing why agencies use “fixing deficiencies in the grade” when they mean “priming the street for faster speeds,” for instance. But imagine if public agencies listened to the people who value […]

Coloradans Are Driving Less, But Agencies Keep Spending on Expanding Roads

By David Sachs | | 4 Comments
People in the Southwest are driving less and using transit more, but transportation spending doesn’t reflect those trends, according to a new report from the Southwestern Energy Efficiency Project. Instead state DOTs are building more roads, as though nothing has changed. Meanwhile regional transportation agencies like the Denver Regional Council of Governments aren’t spending enough on […]