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Despite a light rail station and the very busy 0 bus, the project delivered what was promised — a place for more, faster cars.

So far the main feature of the Peña Station "smart city" is car storage.

According to the National Association of City Transportation Officials, corners with huge turning radii have a direct correlation with drivers making high-speed turns that endanger pedestrians trying to cross the street. Urban street corners with a radius of more than 15 feet should be rare, NACTO says. Most of these downtown corners are at 25 feet.

It's hard to deny the importance of experiencing a street's pedestrian-hostile environment, but showing officials how it negatively impacts residents may be the next best thing.

Here's something to sink your teeth into: Denver has 175 drive-thrus, give or take, and most are located on the city's deadliest streets travel on.

Far northeast Denver was built around driving, but a plan to guide the next 20 years of neighborhood change aims to change that.

The auto industry probably loves Colorado’s enthusiastic embrace of automated vehicles. But if decision-makers bet on robo-cars as a transportation panacea, to the exclusion of proven urban transportation solutions, they risk repeating past mistakes that hollowed out urban centers and deepened our dependence on cars. We can make our city streets safer and more efficient today … Continued

In an 11 to 1 vote, the council allowed for walkable housing development mixed with offices and retail, all while scrapping parking requirements within a half-mile of the train stop.

The Vision Zero Coalition wants to make sure Denver Public Works doesn't water down the walking and biking improvements planned for Washington Street in Globeville, which will be reconstructed -- and like so many other Denver street projects, widened -- as part of the bond package voters approved in November.