Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about WalkDenver

WalkDenver: Hancock’s Budget “Reflects a Status Quo Mentality”

By David Sachs | Sep 22, 2016 | 5 Comments

Last week Streetsblog looked at Mayor Michael Hancock’s proposed 2017 budget and was not impressed. Despite the mayor’s stated commitment to ending traffic deaths, he’s not committing much in the way of actual resources to safe walking and biking. The pedestrian advocates at WalkDenver have been combing through the budget as well. In a newsletter published today, WalkDenver says that despite […]

WalkDenver Audit Quantifies Difficulty of Walking on East Colfax

By David Sachs | Aug 29, 2016 | 2 Comments

A third of the people traveling along East Colfax Avenue and surrounding streets are walking, taking transit or biking, but that doesn’t mean the streets are well-designed for anything other than driving a car. Now, there’s data to prove it from a recent “walkability audit” by WalkDenver. The report quantifies what many people already know about the […]

Meet Denver’s First Full-Time Pedestrian Planner

By David Sachs | Aug 26, 2016 | 1 Comment

Mayor Michael Hancock made room in this year’s budget to hire Denver’s first full-time pedestrian planner, and Denver Public Works recently filled the post. His name is David Pulsipher. Pulsipher comes to the Mile High City from the Chicago Department of Transportation, where he headed up a program focusing on pedestrian infrastructure near Chicago’s 1,500 […]

Denver Council Weighs Three Options to Fix Broken Sidewalk Network

By David Sachs | Aug 11, 2016 | 10 Comments

Yesterday the City Council finally dug into the question of how to complete Denver’s patchwork sidewalk network. Sidewalk construction and maintenance currently falls entirely on individual property owners. It’s a policy designed to fail, with many people unable to afford sidewalks, and the quality of the pedestrian environment suffering as a result. People pay with their lives. […]

Artists Are Turning Colfax Into a Canvass Ahead of WalkDenver’s Gala

By David Sachs | Jul 7, 2016 | No Comments

Street art adds character to neighborhoods and can make an uninviting place to walk feel a little more inviting. Cue WalkDenver’s “Art on the Ave” contest. The pedestrian advocates asked 14 artists to treat utility boxes on East Colfax as canvasses this month, and they did, turning drab but necessary sidewalk clutter into colorful works […]

A Complete Map of Denver’s Walking Network Is Now Within Reach

By David Sachs | Jun 29, 2016 | 1 Comment

While the Denver City Council deliberates over how to expand the sidewalk network citywide and city officials embark on a two-year process to create a pedestrian plan, advocates have been pounding the pavement to show exactly what needs to change. WalkDenver and the Community Active Living Coalition recently crowdsourced a ton of new data for WALKscope, the app that lets […]

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