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#CoGivesDay: Support Nonprofit Journalism for a More Livable City

By Andy Bosselman | Dec 4, 2018

Streetsblog plays an important role in making this city a better place to live through better walking, better biking and better transit—and people like you make what we do possible. Today, during the statewide Colorado Gives day, our all-volunteer board of directors and myself would like to ask you to consider making a tax-deductible donation.

"Spaghetti Junction" in downtown Louisville. Photo: Ohio River Bridges Project via Broken Sidewalk

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Kentucky Spent $1.3 Billion on a Highway No One Wants

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 28, 2018

Two years after it opened, traffic is down 50 percent on Louisville's new $1.3 billion highway bridge.

Slain Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. Photo:
Project on Middle East Democracy

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Carbon Tax Would Hurt Saudis for Khashoggi Murder

By Charles Komanoff | Oct 22, 2018

This story was originally published by the Carbon Tax Center. It is reprinted here with permission. It’s often said that a carbon tax is first and foremost a tax on coal. I’ve probably said it myself, and David Roberts wrote as much the other day in his useful post for Vox, “The 5 most important questions […]

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Is Pedal Dockless Bike Share Going Extinct?

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 10, 2018

Some of the biggest markets for dockless bikes practically have any traditional shared bikes left.

As travel becomes cheaper and time wasted in traffic becomes more pleasant, AVs threaten to make congestion worse. Image Credit: © Rinspeed

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Walkable City Rules: Don’t Expand City Streets for Self-Driving Cars

By Jeff Speck | Oct 6, 2018

An excerpt from the upcoming book Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places by Jeff Speck.

Friday’s Headlines

By David Sachs | Sep 28, 2018

Reminder: CDOT, Backed by City, Is Bulldozing Homes and Tampering with People’s Health to Save I-70 Drivers a Few Minutes (El Semanario) …While North Denver Residents Fight to Stay Put with Land Trusts (Denverite) A, B Lines Out of Service this Weekend Because of Bridge Construction (Fox31) Rutt Bridges: Denver Should Scrap Transit Because Cities […]

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