Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about WalkDenver

Why WalkDenver’s Tactical Urbanism Projects Matter

By David Sachs | Sep 30, 2015 | No Comments

Denver is just beginning to recover from decades of car-first planning. Making the city walkable will take big changes, like a legitimate way to fund a sidewalk network and a much more aggressive approach to reducing traffic deaths and serious injuries on our streets. Campaigns like those are marathons. They take years to unfold and change the […]

Denver Can Do Better Than Its Shoddy Connections to Transit

By David Sachs | Sep 3, 2015 | 5 Comments

Denver’s transit network is growing, but no government body has taken responsibility for improving access to train stations and bus stops — not RTD, not Denver Public Works, not the Colorado Department of Transportation, not Denver’s elected officials. It’s the city’s low-income residents who bear the brunt of this failure. Those are the findings from a report released today by the transit advocates at Mile […]

Chaffee Park’s Streets Need an Overhaul to Make Them Walkable

By David Sachs | Aug 31, 2015 | No Comments

Chaffee Park is a north Denver neighborhood scrunched between three highways. Like a lot of neighborhoods in the city, it suffers from street designs that prioritize the movement of car traffic over the safety of people. People who walk in the neighborhood know it’s a terrible and dangerous pedestrian environment. Now a new study maps out those problems block-by-block. […]

West Colfax Demo Proves Neighborhood Needs, Deserves Complete Street

By David Sachs | Aug 19, 2015 | 1 Comment

West Colfax Avenue suffers from an identity crisis. It was designed to move motor vehicles in and out of the city as fast as possible, but it’s also a neighborhood street where bus riders, families, and shoppers abound. The result is a thoroughfare that caters to motorists, but not to the people who actually live, work, and walk there. […]

Be a Part of West Colfax’s Transformation Into a Complete Street

By David Sachs | Aug 12, 2015 | No Comments

For six hours this Sunday, part of West Colfax Avenue will be transformed from a four-lane, car-heavy thoroughfare into a three-lane complete street for people. It’ll be a temporary road diet (built with temporary materials) that demonstrates how simple street design can have an outsize effect on a neighborhood’s safety and sense of place. Streetsblog Denver covered the demonstration, […]

WalkDenver Wants to Improve Colfax By Showing Off Its Human Face

By David Sachs | Jul 29, 2015 | 1 Comment

Colfax Avenue: the “longest, wickedest street in America.” For a while now, it’s been becoming less like a state highway for cars, and more like a vibrant, urban street for people. Yet it’s far from the pedestrian paradise that WalkDenver, the city’s preeminent pedestrian advocacy group, envisions. The group has long focused its attention on the city’s […]

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