Last Week: 508 Car Crashes, Six Life-Changing Injuries on Denver’s Streets
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To track the extent of crashes and injuries, Streetsblog is launching a weekly traffic violence report.
Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about transportation policy
Denver7 Got It Wrong: Parking Is Proliferating Downtown, Not Shrinking
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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!
Colorado House Passes Bicycle “Safety Stop” Bill
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If signed into law, the "safety stop" bill would not let bicyclists treat stop signs as yields statewide.
Denver Can’t Rely on State Lawmakers to Fund Transportation the City Needs
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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.
Colorado Senate Could Pass Bill to Subsidize Highways, Snub Transit
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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.
It’s About to Get Easier for Colorado Cities to Set Safer Speed Limits
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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.