Today’s Headlines

CDOT Dumping More Taxpayer Money Into Undeveloped Pod Travel Beyond Hyperloop (DenPo) Council Passes Hancock’s Budget With Sidewalk Funds, But Lacking Affordable Housing Details Prompt “No” Votes (Denverite) RTD’s Mobile Ticket Option Saves Riders Time and Headaches (Denverite) 252 Affordable Homes Coming to 61st and Peña Station (Denverite) Partial Opening of Civic Center Station Makes … Continued

DenPo Reader: Ethical, Social Problems With Driverless Cars Mean Transition “Is Going to Be Ugly” Cherry Creek Group Envisions More Ped-Bike Connections Along Trail Near Mall (Denverite) DenPo Highlights a Few Transport Projects Approved By Voters — Including a 1950s-Style Widening of 56th Ave. in “the Suburbs” Keeping Potential Amazon Locales Secret Apparently in Public’s … Continued

Judge Won’t Stop Flood Project, But Legal Complaints Remain to Stop I-70 Widening (Denverite) Driver Hits Person Walking at Broadway and Ellsworth, Flees (Denver PD) CDOT Chief Bhatt, Who Said Agency Faces $1B Annual Shortfall, Told Amazon Team Its Loaded (DenPo) State Commission Will Hear Out RTD on Why Agency No Longer Needs Crossing Guards … Continued

DU Professor: Don’t Expect “Miracles” With Relatively Small Transportation Package (ABC7) New Civic Center Station Opens December 17, But Mall Ride Will Start Using It Sunday (DBJ) 9News Stumped Why 10-Lane, High-Speed Road Has So Many Fiery Crashes Which Neighborhoods Voted for the Bond Measures and Which Didn’t (Denverite) National headlines at Streetsblog USA

City Voters Decisively Pass $431 Million Transportation Package (DenPo, Denverite) East Colfax Businesses Pass Higher Tax Rate to Fund Pedestrian Improvements (DBJ) Anti-Growth Candidates Win Seats in Lakewood, Greenwood Village (DBJ) El Paso County Voters Approve Funding to Create More Room for Cars on I-25 (Gazette) Driver Hits Person Walking in Aurora, Fox31 Leads With Traffic … Continued

Denverites Vote on a $431 Million Transportation Package Today (Denverite) New Walking Infrastructure to Complement Colfax BRT if Property Owners Pass Tax Hike Today (Denverite) Westword Listicle: The 10 Most Dangerous Intersections Right Now Rep. Bridges, Who Sponsored Bill to Preempt Cities from Regulating Driverless Cars, Says They’re the Great Equalizer (DenPo) Highway 119 Bus … Continued

Drivers Crash at 5th and Lincoln, Pin Person Walking Under Car (ABC7) “Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit. So Why Are More People Driving Cars?” (CityLab) Redeveloper of Downtown Elitch’s to Focus on Huge Parking Lots Before Amusement Park (Denverite) Denverite Dives Into What It Will Take to Develop Affordable, Walkable Area Around 38th and Blake … Continued

Advocates Hold Vigil for Hundreds of Trees Being Lost to Flood Project Knotted with I-70 Widening (CBS4) As If Most Aurora Transit Riders Don’t Use Bus, Aurora Sentinel Editorial Claims Sparsely Used R Line Is Start of “Real Mass Transit” The Hill Gives Koch Brothers Shill O’Toole a Megaphone to Assert “Transit Apocalypse” in Denver … Continued

Study Pinpoints Driving as Denver Area’s Main Contributor to Ozone Pollution (Denverite) Family of Two-Year-Old Tenzin Chokzin, Killed By Driver, Wants Drivers to Slow Down, Speed Bumps (ABC7) There’s a Funeral Tonight for City Park Golf Course (Westword) Driver Kills Zachary Schlagel, 19, in Fort Collins Before Fleeing (Coloradoan) Colorado Muslim Group Condemns Sayfullo Saipov’s … Continued