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Walkable City Rules: Don’t Expand City Streets for Self-Driving Cars
An excerpt from the upcoming book Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places by Jeff Speck.
October 6, 2018
Friday’s Headlines
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 … Continued
September 28, 2018
Thursday’s Headlines
City Must Give Walking, Transit, Biking, and Scootering More Street Space to Avoid Growing Conflicts (DenPo) Government-Owned Sidewalks Rot Away as City Charges Residents to Fix Theirs (CBS4) Denver Public Works Forces People to Climb and Contort to Press Beg Button (Fox31) RTD Bus Stops Rob People’s Dignity, Are Inaccessible (DenverUrbanism) RTD Partners with Lyft … Continued
September 27, 2018
Friday’s Headlines
Hancock’s 2019 Budget Includes $27 Million for Walking, Biking, Transit, According to DenPo Westword Remembers Raymond Davies, Killed by a Hit-and-Run Driver in August Driver Smashes Car Through Home, Injuring One, on 18th and York (Denver PD) Denver PD Chases Car-Jacking Suspect Right through Home on Federal (CBS4) Denver Public Works Says New Federal Blvd … Continued
September 14, 2018
Today’s Headlines
City Sides Against Residents, Lets CDOT-Backed Kiewet Pollute Neighborhoods with Nighttime I-70 Construction Noise (DenPo) Councilman Lopez: “Working People” Deserve Access to Bike-Share (ABC7) Archaic Scooter Rules Mean Winter Riding Hinges on Property Owners Clearing Sidewalks (Westword) Cap Hill Resident Demonstrates How to Fix Flagstone Sidewalks (Denverite) Authors of Transpo Ballot Measure to Debate (CBS4) … Continued
September 7, 2018
Today’s Headlines
Lyft Launched 350 Scooters on Denver Streets Today (Denverite) Why You Shouldn’t Skip the RTD Section of November’s Ballot (Denverite) City to Subsidize Chariot “Microtransit” Between Cherry Creek, Downtown — with Cheaper Fares than RTD (DenPo) Kiewett, CDOT’s I-70 Widener, will Beg for Round-the-Clock Construction Noise Tonight (DenPo) City Council Candidate: City, Not Residents, Should Handle … Continued
September 6, 2018
Today’s Headlines
Motorist Kills Person Walking at 17th and Federal (Fox31) Incorrect Sentinel Editorial: RTD Fare Pass Overhaul Seeks “To Create a New Class of Passengers Who Are Poor, Really Poor” City’s Sidewalk Improvement Program Has Some Kinks to Work Out (ABC7) G Line Horns Still Driving Arvada Residents, Business Owners Up the Wall (ABC7) Lime Claims … Continued
August 30, 2018
America’s Car Culture is Literally Shortening Your Life: Study
Opioids have gotten the most blame when it comes to the U.S.'s disturbing recent reversal on life expectancy. But traffic deaths are a notable factor as well.
August 24, 2018
The Real E-Scooters Story Is Much More Boring Than Media Coverage Suggests
It doesn't make for exciting newsprint. But people like scooters and they aren't causing any big problems.
August 15, 2018
Today’s Headlines
Traffic, Pollution Coming to North Denver as Hancock, Hickenlooper Break Ground on Wider I-70 (Fox31, ABC7) Some Businesses Assume Endlessly More Parking Garages Is How to Deal with Growing Population (DBJ) Street Closure Angers Cherry Creek Residents, Who Get Their Way in the End (Denverite) Union Pacific Must Clean Up Piles of Trash Along D … Continued
August 3, 2018