transportation policy
Denver’s Cut of the State Transportation Bill, and How Hancock Should Fund Car Independence
There's no excuse not use the new revenue to jump start what Hancock claims to care about: cutting solo driving commutes from 73 percent to 50 by 2030 and doubling the share of walking, biking, and transit trips in the process.
May 11, 2018
Colorado Lawmakers Nudge RTD to Provide Bigger Fare Discounts for Low-Income Transit Riders
RTD Board of Directors says it has everything under control.
April 26, 2018
Last Week: 508 Car Crashes, Six Life-Changing Injuries on Denver’s Streets
To track the extent of crashes and injuries, Streetsblog is launching a weekly traffic violence report.
April 23, 2018
Denver7 Got It Wrong: Parking Is Proliferating Downtown, Not Shrinking
On Friday, local ABC affiliate Denver7 aired a news segment about the effect of growth on the downtown parking supply. The gist of the story was this: Useful buildings are supplanting surface parking lots, and that means fewer places to park cars. If only!
April 17, 2018
Colorado House Passes Bicycle “Safety Stop” Bill
If signed into law, the "safety stop" bill would not let bicyclists treat stop signs as yields statewide.
April 16, 2018
Denver Can’t Rely on State Lawmakers to Fund Transportation the City Needs
It's clear from the debate at the capitol that any legislative package of transportation funding will be more about pleasing constituencies who live a stone's throw from Utah, Oklahoma, and Kansas than about solving the unique problems of an urban, growing city.
April 11, 2018
Colorado Senate Could Pass Bill to Subsidize Highways, Snub Transit
Known as SB 1, the bill would also make toll lanes harder to build and threatens to undermine a more transit-oriented funding measure on the November ballot.
March 26, 2018
It’s About to Get Easier for Colorado Cities to Set Safer Speed Limits
HB 1191 frees cities and towns from the archaic 85th percentile rule. Instead, they can change speed limits because they believe it would reduce crashes or make walking and biking safer.
March 22, 2018
Colorado Republicans Vote for Big Government, Against Fair Fares for RTD Riders
Imagine you own a shoe store and every time you want to bring in more customers by having a sale, you had to ask the National Shoe Retailers Association for permission, which could take months or years to give you an answer. That's how Senator Tim Neville and his Republican colleagues want RTD to do things.
March 21, 2018
The Overhaul of RTD’s Fare Pass Programs, Explained
Callibrating current passes, nixing old options, and adding new ones might raise ridership, but not everyone is happy.
February 27, 2018
