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The Broadway Bike Lane Opens Today, And It Could Mean a Retail Boom (ABC7, Fox31) Driver Injures Person Walking at Federal and West 14th (Fox31) Bicyclist Mark Shelton: Hit-and-Run Driver Deliberately Swerved Toward Me (Westword) State Trooper: Drivers Often Rage Against Bicyclists Because They’re Stuck in Traffic (Westword) DenPo Columnist: NIMBYism Keeps Housing Unaffordable Curbing Density With … Continued

A few times a year RTD examines its bus and rail routes and tries to optimize them by doing things like adjusting frequency, adding buses, or changing the route. This fall the transit agency will launch a new bus route, the 62, between Stapleton and Dick’s Sporting Goods Park/Commerce City Civic Center. RTD will also … Continued

Driver Kills Bicyclist Michelle Walters, 34, During Ironman Competition on U.S. 36 (Daily Camera) Denver PD Will Start Collecting Racial Data on Traffic, Pedestrian Stops (DenPo) ABC7 Picks Up Story on Colfax Crosswalk Murals Denverite Investigates “Urban Traveler” Stereotype Hancock Uses to Explain Mall Violence Female Engineers In Charge of RTD’s N-Line Are “Breaking Barriers, … Continued

At the end of June, the Better Bike Share Conference brought together advocates, employers, and experts in the field to share ideas and strategies about how to improve access to bike-share. We interviewed a dozen leaders about what bike-share systems are doing to overcome barriers to use, and what more needs to be done.

Driver Hits Four People Walking at 34th and Walnut (DenPo) DenPo Covers the Broadway Protected Bike Lane, Set to Open August 15 How a New Roadbed for 16th Mall Might Look (Denverite) Backed By Council, NIMBYs Stonewall 3-Story Homes on Colorado Boulevard (DenPo) Seems Like Neighbors Didn’t Like Developer’s Plan for TOD Near Orchard RTD … Continued

Editor’s note: If you want to help shape Denver’s transit network, take this map-based survey where you can make as many recommendations as you want. As Denver grows, the city needs to take transit into its own hands. As helpful as RTD and its expanding rail network may be for suburban commuters, the region’s new transit lines don’t do much for the … Continued

You can usually count on Vox for accurate, research-based explainers of public policy issues. That’s why the new Vox video on red light cameras is so monumentally disappointing. Researchers have established that red light cameras make streets safer by reducing potentially fatal T-bone collisions, though they do lead to more rear-end crashes, which tend not … Continued

Earlier this year Streetsblog Denver teamed up with the Community Active Living Coalition’s Denver PhotoVoices project and asked readers to send in pictures that depict streets working well — #SweetStreets. Congratulations to Joshua Palmeri, who captured this sun-drenched scene on Wynkoop Street in front of Union Station. And look — no drivers blocking the bike … Continued

Denver is growing faster than most cities in the country, and its streets need to catch up. Without rapid changes to make walking, biking, and transit more appealing, the city is going to get overrun by car traffic. Under Mayor Hancock, Denver’s streets aren’t adapting fast enough. The bike lane and sidewalk networks are stunted. … Continued