Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about transportation funding

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Commentary: How a new emphasis on safer streets could drive big change in Colorado

By Danny Katz | May 4, 2021 | No Comments

Colorado's wowntowns, main streets, and the urban arterials that have become so many of our main streets should be vibrant community centers, but people need to feel safe accessing them, no matter how they get there.

RTD 15 bus in red bus-only lane on 15th Street in Denver

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Commentary: Rolling Out The Red Carpet For Transit

By Matt Frommer | Mar 24, 2021 | No Comments

If you draw a massive venn diagram of all the characteristics we want out of our transportation system – safety, affordability, less congestion, less pollution, and more access that’s more equitable – you’ll find transit sitting right at the sweet spot in the center. This year, 2021, is the year to build a more robust and sophisticated transit system in Denver, and we may finally have the funding to do it, writes Matt Frommer, a Senior Transportation Associate with the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP).

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Op-Ed: Middle America Won’t Survive Losing Amtrak to COVID-19

By Kea Wilson | Sep 21, 2020 | No Comments

Non-coastal states will suffer if Amtrak fails — unless Congress takes action.

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Half of Americans Want Drivers Who Drive More to Pay More

By Kea Wilson | Jul 19, 2020 | No Comments

People are starting to get behind a VMT tax. (Um, so what's a vehicle miles traveled tax?)

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McConnell Calls House Infrastructure Plan a ‘Green New Deal Masquerading As a Highway Bill’

By Kea Wilson | Jul 2, 2020 | No Comments

Mitch McConnell just accidentally created a lot of new fans for a Democratic infrastructure bill. The Senate majority leader reacted to the news that the House had passed a massive new infrastructure act by calling it “a thousand-page cousin of the Green New Deal, masquerading as a highway bill” — providing an inadvertently helpful reframing […]

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Four Things Every Sustainable Transportation Advocate Should Know About the INVEST Act

By Kea Wilson | Jul 1, 2020 | No Comments

The House reportedly likely to vote on a major infrastructure bill soon — and if it passes, it will have big consequences for the future of sustainable transportation in the U.S. The Moving Forward Act is a massive, $1.5-trillion bill that will have sweeping implications for housing, climate change, water, and land use in addition […]

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