Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about WalkScope

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. […]

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, […]

Meet the Crowdsourcing App That Promises to Improve Denver’s Sidewalks

By David Sachs | Jul 14, 2015 | No Comments

The City and County of Denver doesn’t have a dedicated funding stream for building and maintaining sidewalks, but WalkScope, a crowdsourcing tool that maps and rates Denver’s walking infrastructure, could be the springboard the city needs to change that. WalkScope allows anyone with access to a smart phone or computer to map the quality of […]

It’s Official: Shoddy Streets Make Walking in Westwood a Hazardous Mess

By David Sachs | Jun 30, 2015 | No Comments

Livable streets advocates in Westwood, one of Denver’s worst areas for walking and biking, are taking action as the city develops a new plan for their neighborhood. Westwood Unidos, a neighborhood organization, and PlaceMatters, a think tank for city planning, performed a “sidewalk audit” on Saturday. Residents and volunteers walked the southwest Denver neighborhood, took pictures, and recorded […]