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Complete Streets Won’t Work Without Complete Bridges

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 15, 2016 | No Comments

Networks of safe walking and biking infrastructure won’t work very well if they’re interrupted by bridges that are dangerous or stressful to cross. But when transportation agencies fix up bridges, their instinct is often to do the least for walking and biking that they can get away with. Garrett Hennigan at the Washington Area Bicyclists […]

Today’s Headlines

By David Sachs | Sep 13, 2016 | 2 Comments

Hancock Proposes Budget With $19 Million for “Mobility” (Denverite, DenPo) Competing Affordable Housing Fund Bills Move Through Council (DenPo, Denverite) Residents Near Regis University Under Impression They Own Street Space (ABC7) DenPo Columnist: Don’t Fine Drivers Who Speed in School Zones Remove Eight-Lane Speer Boulevard and Watch Neighborhoods Thrive (Denverite) Driver Hits Person on Bike […]

With Two-Way Conversion, Blake Street Is About to Get Better For Everyone

By David Sachs | Aug 22, 2016 | 6 Comments

Blake Street will soon resemble a neighborhood street instead of a speedway for cars. Today Denver Public Works began converting Blake from a one-way road to a two-way street with bike lanes. The redesign, which runs from Broadway to 35th Street, should calm car traffic and make Blake a safer place to walk, bike, and drive. This […]

Today’s Headlines

By David Sachs | Aug 15, 2016 | No Comments

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 […]

New Route to Commerce City, More Consistent 15 Bus Part of RTD Changes

By David Sachs | Aug 9, 2016 | 1 Comment

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 […]

Today’s Headlines

By David Sachs | Aug 8, 2016 | No Comments

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, […]

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