Today’s Headlines

Parents Unite to Demand Traffic Calming, Crosswalks on Dangerous Park Hill Streets (CBS4) Chicago Has Three Times as Many People as Denver, But Our Ped-Bike Death Totals Aren’t Far Behind (Next City) Person Walking Killed by Light Rail Train (Denverite) Denver’s Bus Stops Are Shoddy Because RTD, City Don’t Take Responsibility for Them (DenverUrbanism) Bike … Continued

Westword Makes the Case for Prop 110, a Sales Tax Hike to Expand Highways, But Also Transit, Biking, and Walking Infrastructure Razor Drops Scooters on Denver Streets, Bringing City’s Fleet to 1,400 (Denverite) Driver Kills Person Walking in Commerce City (Fox31) RTD: No, Pythons Are Not Service Animals (Westword) A Periodic Sob Story About Supposed … Continued

Woah: The Denver Post Advocates for More Bike Lanes and Less Road Widening? Denverite Picks Up on Research that Uber, Lyft Add Congestion to Local Streets, Cannibalize Transit …While People in Wheelchairs Can’t Even Hail a Ride (Westword) …But Hospital Patients Can (CBS4) ABC7 Picks Up on City’s Disregard for Government-Owned Sidewalks The Orphans that … Continued

Drivers Kill Two People Walking in Separate Crashes, One on Federal Boulevard (DenPo) Walker Stapleton: “Precious” Transportation Money Should Go “Entirely” to “Roads and Bridges” (CPR) Yes, Drivers Have to Pay for the Roads They Use (9News) Uptown Parking Lot Owners Want to Trade Car Storage for Useful Buildings (BusinessDen) Front Porch Has a Grumpy … Continued

Driver Kills Person Walking at 65th Avenue and Tower Road (DenPo) Light Rail Train Hits SUV After Driver Tries to Beat Red Light (CBS4) As E-Scooter Riders Proliferate, City Laws and Infrastructure Lag Behind (DenPo) Cities and Towns Would Get Control of Billions in Transportation Funding if Voters Pass Sales Tax (DenPo) Westword Carries Water … Continued

Reminder: CDOT, Backed by City, Is Bulldozing Homes and Tampering with People’s Health to Save I-70 Drivers a Few Minutes (El Semanario) …While North Denver Residents Fight to Stay Put with Land Trusts (Denverite) A, B Lines Out of Service this Weekend Because of Bridge Construction (Fox31) Rutt Bridges: Denver Should Scrap Transit Because Cities … Continued

City Must Give Walking, Transit, Biking, and Scootering More Street Space to Avoid Growing Conflicts (DenPo) Government-Owned Sidewalks Rot Away as City Charges Residents to Fix Theirs (CBS4) Denver Public Works Forces People to Climb and Contort to Press Beg Button (Fox31) RTD Bus Stops Rob People’s Dignity, Are Inaccessible (DenverUrbanism) RTD Partners with Lyft … Continued

Next Chapter in RTD Commuter Rail Crossing Gate Saga: Blame Bicyclist Safety (DenPo) Feds Give RTD $11M for New Buses, Upgrades to Maintenance Facilities (Politics) Self-Proclaimed Climate Mayor Michael Hancock Sides with Oil and Gas Industry on Prop 112 (Politics) City Voters May Get Chance to Repeal Urban Camping Ban (Denverite) CDOT Drags Out Sound … Continued

RTD Still Short 123 Bus Drivers as Service Cuts Continue (ABC7) Florist Blames Retirement on Broadway Bike Lane, Says Area Has “No Future” After Selling Building for $2.7 Million (BusinessDen) Scooters Are Dangerous, CBS4 Reports After Driver Hits Electric Long Boarder Near Closed Sidewalk and Obscured Stop Sign Homes for People Notch Win Over Homes … Continued