Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area

• RTD to hold virtual community meetings today at 12 noon and tomorrow at 12 noon and 5 p.m. about real-life proposed service changes to start in June… including more frequent buses woooooooo (Colorado Politics, RTD)
• RTD Celebrates Women’s History Month: Gwendolyn Baldwin, RTD Parts Clerk (RTD)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 7 a.m.: 47 (Good). Yesterday’s max: 61 (Moderate).

Centennial State

• Lawmakers Move To Expand Program That Helped Restaurants And Pedestrians Take Over Colorado’s Main Streets In The Pandemic (Colorado Matters/CPR)
• Democratic Lawmakers Propose Plan To Hold Gov. Jared Polis To His Climate Promises (CPR)
• Following long wait, new CDOT Bustang Outrider services connect Craig to Denver (Craig Daily Press)
• Estes Park: Participate in Graves Avenue Safe Routes to School Community Survey by April 5 (Estes Park News)
• Polis, officials want to hear from Pueblo on how to best spend COVID stimulus money (Pueblo Chieftain)
• Salida ADA Curb Ramp and Lighting Improvements (Heart of the Rockies Radio)

From Streetsblog

• Why The U.S. Needs a Bold 2030 Mode Shift Target (Streetsblog USA)
• Tuesday’s Headlines Because This is Important Stuff (Streetsblog USA)

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Traffic Violence and Safe Streets

• Colorado’s Asian-American Communities Haven’t Been Immune to Pandemic-Related Racism (5280 Magazine)

Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area

• Councilman Chris Hinds: To move Denver’s Cheesman Park away from its elitist roots, let’s keep it free of cars (Colorado Sun)
• Sharing the Streets: Scooters and Equity (City Cast Denver, a new podcast hosted by Bree Davies)
• Denver City Council meetings this week: Tue 9:30 a.m. Mayor-Council, Tue 10:30 a.m. Land Use Transportation Infrastructure Committee; Tue 1:30 p.m. Finance Governance Committee (Committee Canceled. No consent agenda.); Tue 5 p.m. General Public Comment Session and Tue 5:30 p.m. City Council meeting (moved from Monday since the City is closed today for César E. Chávez Day); Wed 10:30 a.m. Safety Housing Education Homelessness Committee; Wed 1:30 p.m. Business Arts Workforce Aviation Services Committee (Committee canceled. Consent agenda included.) (Agendas and links to watch)
  • Reasons to pay attention to Tue 10:30 a.m. Land Use Transportation Infrastructure Committee:
    • Round 2 discussion on non-financial license agreements with Limebike and Lyft Bikes and Scooters, LLC for five years to operate micromobility services and install associated infrastructure in the public right of way, citywide (Meeting details)
    • Denver Wants New Developments to Help Reduce Cars on the Roads (Westword)
• Councilwoman Ortega, Sen. Moreno: “Building back better” means an opportunity for environmental justice for all communities (Colorado Sun)
• Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation (INC) Transportation Committee posts video from March meeting featuring Bikes on Broadway, DOTI’s New Director of Transit, Denver’s Micromobility Program, Bike Streets Project: 2 Mile Pledge & Stay Sane Loop Routes, and 2050 Metro Vision Regional Transportation Plan (INC)
• RTD N Line fare pilot ends 3-27 (RTD)
• Allstate Sweeping Inc. President Beth Krueger: ‘It’s great to have women in the marketplace’ (RTD)
• RTD Board of Directors meetings this week: None (RTD)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 9 a.m.: 51 (Moderate). Yesterday’s max: 48 (Good).

Centennial State

• New Bustang Outrider line to provide rides from Sterling to Greeley, Denver (Sterling Journal-Advocate)
• Bustang now connecting Winter Park, Granby, Kremmling, more to Denver (Sky Hi News)
• CDOT happy with Bustang ridership during COVID (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel)
• Berthoud town board talks sidewalks and developments (Berthoud Weekly Surveyor)
• Electronic scooter rental company Bird looks to launch fleet in Pueblo by this summer (Pueblo Chieftain)
• Jon Caldara of Independence Institute and State Sen. John Cooke (R-Greeley) file ballot measure to use existing sales and use tax revenues for roads (State Legislative Services, Complete Colorado)

From Streetsblog

• Buttigieg broadly commits to increased safety, equity, sustainability – details pending (Streetsblog Chicago)
• SORRIEST BUS STOPS 2021: Homeland, Calif. vs. Staten Island, N.Y. (Streetsblog USA)
• Monday’s Headlines to Contradict Sir Bob Geldof (Streetsblog USA)

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• Denver Police ask for help finding driver in March 11 deadly hit-and-run crash at northbound Colorado Blvd. and E. 26th Ave. Call Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867. (DPD Twitter, 9News)
• Student wants DPS to change Title IX policies: Denver East senior Lilia Scudamore believes schools do not properly handle accusations of sexual assault and harassment. (9News)

Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area

• Denver Could Get Over $300 Million From American Rescue Plan… and “After focusing on that initial restoration of services by bringing back the employees who provide them, [CFO Brendan] Hanlon expects the city to spend its federal dollars on shortening service backlogs” and other stuff, so today is a good day to call 311 or visit www.denvergov.org/311 to report unsafe intersections and broken and missing sidewalks. But isn’t every day? (Westword)
• Doss Technical Services founder Geneva Doss Smith: ‘I am grateful for the many opportunities that sustain our business’ (RTD)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 42 (Good). Yesterday’s max: 56 (Moderate).

Centennial State

• Riding the Outrider: New Buses connecting Craig and Denver (Steamboat Magazine)
• Loveland council reviews costs of implementing Connect Loveland transportation plan (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
• Loveland council, Thompson school board talk collaboration, Safe Routes to School, and role of police in schools (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
• Roadway improvements, including walking safety improvements, scheduled for small stretch of Colo. 257 in Windsor (Greeley Tribune)
• Study on linking La Junta to Pueblo, Colorado Front Range via passenger trains expected to wrap next year (La Junta Tribute Democrat)
• Transportation board kills plan for trains to return to Colorado’s dormant Tennessee Pass (Colorado Sun)

From Streetsblog

• Washington State BIPOC and Disability Advocates Zero In on Highway Spending (Streetsblog USA)
• How Buffalo Moved Away From Parking Requirements (Streetsblog USA)
• Friday’s Headlines Are Stuck in the Middle With You (Streetsblog USA)

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