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Today’s Headlines
Denverite Breaks Down RTD’s Fare Pass Overhaul Here’s an Idea: Create a Walkable Place for People Around Desolate 38th and Blake Station (Denverite) DenPo Columnist: City Shouldn’t Intervene to Make “Absurdly Expansive” Parking Lot Near Light Rail Useful Gubernatorial Candidates Polis, Kennedy, Underwood Get Behind High-Speed Rail (Times-Call) AAA: Drivers Who Use Cell Phones Up … Continued
January 10, 2018
Today’s Headlines
Cities Can’t Depend on RTD Alone to Deliver Their Transit Needs (CPR) Hickenlooper Claims on National TV that Denver’s “Light Rail System” Was “Just Rolled Out” (Denverite) 615 People Died on Colorado Roads Last Year (9News) Hickenlooper Wants Budget Windfall to Help Fund Transportation (DBJ) Expect More Traffic for National Western Stock Show Thanks to … Continued
January 4, 2018
Seattle Used Bike Racks to Break Up Homeless Encampment
Public records show the racks were installed to deter homeless people from staying under a viaduct, not to help people get somewhere.
December 20, 2017
Today’s Headlines
Colorado on Track to Eclipse Last Year’s Total of 608 Traffic Deaths (DenPo) DenPo Sets Stage for Capitol Battle Over Transport Funding Without Mentioning Transit Kyle Clark, Who Created TV Segment to Mock A Line, Backtracks in Wake of Amtrak Crash (9News) Commerce City Gives Up Taxpayer Money to Arrivo So Company Can Live Out … Continued
December 19, 2017
The Arrivo “End of Traffic” Video Looks a Lot Like 1956 General Motors Propaganda
It's been nearly 80 years since General Motors promised Americans utopia via the automobile. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
December 1, 2017
Today’s Headlines
Governor Wannabe Tom Tancredo Despises Light Rail and Bike Lanes, Wants More Cars on Roads (Westword) Complete Sidewalk Network Would Cost Entire 2018 General Fund (9News) Downtown Amusement Park That’s Closed Half the Year Is Staying Put, Owner Says, and So Is Most of Its Parking Crater (ABC7) City Could Convert CDOT HQ Into Affordable … Continued
November 30, 2017
Who’s to Blame for Drive-to-Urbanism?
Developments can have the trappings of a walkable place but still be very difficult to access without a car.
November 27, 2017
Today’s Headlines
Driver Injures Three People Walking at 15th and Stout (DenPo) Driver Kills Person Walking in Lakewood, Flees (Fox31) DenPo Reader: CDOT Obscured True Taxpayer Cost of I-70 Widening 431 Homes Planned Across Street from 41st and Fox Station (Denverite) DenPo Reader Says City Needs Subway Street Harassment Changes How People Move Through City (Denverite) Driver … Continued
November 27, 2017
Bikes and Transit Keep Racking Up Ballot Wins Across the Country
In one U.S. city after another, voters keep making their opinions clear.
November 14, 2017
How Denver Could Fix the Car Sewer That Is Hampden Avenue
There's an initiative afoot to reverse decades of car-first planning in southeast Denver by retrofitting the area for people walking, biking, and using transit.
November 7, 2017
