Today’s Headlines

CDOT on Effects of 10-Mile, Four-Year I-70 Construction: Nothing to See Here (Westword) City Council Votes Against Selling Lot for Affordable Homes Near Transit, Bike Path (Denverite) …While Hancock Proposes Higher Weed Tax to Double Affordable Housing Fund (DenPo, Denverite) 5280 Covers Ride-Share Service That Will Ferry Kids Around City in Cars Longmont Undercounts Cyclists … Continued

Judge Attempts to Makes Example of Beth Young, Driver Who Killed Bicyclist John Kirby (9News) Surface Parking Lots Becoming Places for People Great for City, Bad for Driver Interviewed By ABC7 State Patrol Knew About Deadly Driver Robert Ours Before He Killed Diane Garduno with Car (AP) Denverite Has a Round-Up of Big Projects, Many … Continued

Buses Will Get Faster on East Colfax This Week Thanks to Transit Signal Priority (ABC7) 9News Cites Person Hit By Bike Once as Reason Safety Stop Law Doesn’t Keep Bicyclists Safe from Deadly Cars Legislators Debate “More Lanes Vs. Multimodal” (Independent) CDOT Remembers Workers Killed By Drivers (9News) “Conditions Were Favorable” for CDOT Hack (9News) … Continued

Denver Needs Dramatically Better Transit to Become “24-Hour-City” (Denverite) Fox31: Bill Would “Allow Bicyclists to Ride Through Stop Signs” (It Wouldn’t) Denverite Goes Over Your Local Bike-Share Options Fort Lupton Kids Call for Bike Lanes on Dangerous Roads (9News) Fort Collins May Encourage Driving Downtown By Keeping Parking Prices Below-Market (Coloradoan) Lawsuit Could Delay CDOT’s … Continued

Get Ready for I-70 Construction Woes Despite Pending Legal Challenges to CDOT (9News) Driver Abandons Car on Tracks, Delaying C and D Lines (DenPo) Ride-Sharing May Be Cheaper Than Owning a Car Nine Years from Now (DBJ) Exasperated, Aurora Sentinel Endorses Freeway-Focused Senate Bill 1 Funding for Bike-Share and Pedestrian Walkways? That’s So Obama-Era. (303 … Continued

Judge Won’t Let Opponents of I-70 Expansion Use Outside Experts to Make Case (DenPo) CDOT Claims I-70 Construction “Not Going to Be a Huge” Impact on City (Denverite) Business Groups Plead for Legislature to Pass Highway-Heavy Transportation Bill (DBJ) City’s Off-Street Parking Rates Lag Behind More Walkable, Transit-Rich Cities (DBJ) Pedestrian Thoroughfare, “Ample Parking” Part … Continued

Senate Passes Budget Snubbing Transit, Local Control of Transportation Funds (AP) …While Dems Supposedly Against Less Car-Caused Pollution Smile for the Camera (ABC7) 41st and Fox Station to Serve Pretty Dense Area Once Open (9News) Aurora Police Up Reward to Find Hit-and-Run Driver Who Injured 11-Year-Old Girl (Sentinel) The Know: Take RTD to Rockies Opening … Continued

ABC7 on I-70: “Last Legal Battle Has Ended” (It Hasn’t) Not Many People Are Riding the R Line in Aurora (Sentinel) Will Denver and Other Cities Do What It Takes to Stage a Transit Revolution? (Fuse) West Side Neighborhood Orgs Oppose Making Parking Lot Useful in Part Because of “Inadequate” Garage, Traffic (Denverite) Vancouver Developer … Continued

Judge William Martinez Clears Way for CDOT to Start Widening I-70 Despite Pending Public Health Arguments (DenPo) I-70 Project Part of Trend to “Cap” Highways So Kids Can Play in Pollution (Tribune) Driver Jumps Curb, Injures Person Walking at Colfax and Steele (CBS4) G Line Apartment Developer Adds Homes for Cars, Chucks Homes for People … Continued