Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Westwood

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Drivers Kill 3 Pedestrians

By Andy Bosselman | Jul 2, 2019 | No Comments

Traffic fatalities are up 29 percent this year in Denver with 37 dead already compared to 29 at this point in 2018. The numbers grew last week after drivers killed two pedestrians in Denver and a third in Aurora after a frightening hit-and-run Saturday night.

At this neighborhood bikeway (once known as a bicycle boulevard) in Vancouver, bicycles can enter via the cutout, but cars can only exit. Photo: Payton Chung via Flickr

Denver Will Add 17 Miles of New Bike Lanes This Year. Here’s Where.

By Andy Bosselman | May 9, 2019 | 30 Comments

Denver will build 16.8 miles of new bike lanes this summer, kicking off the construction of 125 miles of bikeways the city will add to its network over the next five years. This summer’s work includes nine projects, most in lower-income areas outside of the city center. As the city finally accelerates the expansion of its bike network, advocates expressed support.

The new islands at Morrison and Raleigh in Westwood. Photo: David Sachs

Eyes on the Street: New Pedestrian Islands on Morrison Road

By David Sachs | Jun 6, 2017 | 1 Comment

Denver Public Works is chipping away at a safer Morrison Road, arguably Westwood's main street.

Safer Intersections, Lower Speed Limits Coming to Morrison Rd, Brighton Blvd

By David Sachs | Nov 11, 2016 | No Comments

Denver Public Works wants to decrease the posted speed limits and design safer pedestrian crossings on two dangerous streets: Brighton Boulevard in River North and Morrison Road in Westwood. Drivers seriously injured five people walking and four people biking on Morrison Road between 2012 and 2015, according to city data. And this March, a truck driver […]

Denver Has a Plan for Safer Westwood Streets, Now Hancock Needs to Fund It

By David Sachs | Jun 15, 2016 | 2 Comments

Getting around Westwood in southwest Denver without a car is not safe, let alone pleasant or convenient. You have to contend with wide, high-speed streets and thin, crumbling sidewalks — where sidewalks exist at all. Motorists zoom down Federal, Sheridan, Kentucky, Alameda, and Morrison Road with little regard for the lives of people pushing strollers or walking to the bus stop. Now […]

Today: Speak Up to Save North Denver From the I-70 Widening

By David Sachs | Jun 13, 2016 | No Comments

If you don’t want a wider I-70 cutting through north Denver neighborhoods, you’ll want to head over to City Hall tonight. Advocates fighting the I-70 expansion want to pack City Council chambers for a public hearing about a drainage project tied to the highway widening. The project forces residents to pay for flood mitigation that wouldn’t be such a risk […]

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