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Downtown Commuter Survey Reveals the Weakness of Denver Transit
The Downtown Denver Partnership last week released the results of its commuter survey, an annual exploration of how people get to and from their workplaces downtown. DDP polled 5,740 commuters, which is almost 5 percent of all downtown workers. A plurality of people polled, about 41 percent, said they commute via transit. That’s less than the 44 percent … Continued
December 21, 2015
Does the Plan for I-25 and Broadway Do Enough for Biking and Walking?
“The ‘Midtown’ of Denver.” That’s how a 95-page blueprint from various city agencies envisions the area around RTD’s I-25 and Broadway Station. The plan makes some exciting promises: Walkable, bikeable, transit-friendly streets and bridges would reconnect neighborhoods divided by I-25, the South Platte River, train tracks, and wide, fast roads. And planners want to create a new mixed-use neighborhood with housing, plazas, offices, retail … Continued
December 17, 2015