• “If you hit a pedestrian, you don’t even get a slap on the hand, you get nothing,” says widow of cyclist killed after crash in Colorado Springs. (CS Indy)
• Elevated park one idea for improving dangerous intersection at Federal and Colfax. (Denverite)
• Brown cloud covers Denver as weather traps dangerous level of pollution over region. (Denver Post)
• Dog poop litters Cherry Creek trail. (Fox 31)
• 300 people crowd into contentious “battle of the bike lanes” meeting in Colorado Springs. (CS Indy)
• BMW & Audi drivers in Lakewood can avoid red lights with tech that allows them to know the “green wave speed.” (Colorado Sun)
• You shouldn’t expect new highway lanes without a toll. (9 News)
• Does Hyperloop have a future in Colorado? (5280)
• Aspen officials upset fossil-fuel based shuttles are filling in while electric vehicles are out for repair. (Aspen Times)
• More headlines at Streetsblog USA.

From Streetsblog

• RTD’s new FlexRide service is a suburban UberPool for the price of a bus fare. (Streetsblog Denver)

Other news

• WalkDenver asks for placemaking ideas for South Federal Blvd. (WalkDenver)
• Bike commuters are dying in record numbers (Outside)
• More headlines at Streetsblog USA.

From Streetsblog

• “In Denver, the bus stops make me sad.” Often the city’s bus stops are ugly, dirty, badly maintained and dangerously close to highway-speed traffic. This is a quick tour of three unfortunate bus stops.  (Streetsblog Denver)

Other news

• MAAD & CDOT partner to track how courts handle drunk driving cases. (9 News)
• Denver will update its street design guidelines to be more friendly to pedestrians, cyclists and transit riders. (Denver7)
• CDOT’s popular Bustang service can’t expand. Low wages fail to attract drivers, especially those who can test clean for marijuana. (Denver Post)
• People who scoot walk less according to early data. (Denverite)
• A new Denver bike map shows less-scary routes. (CPR)
• More on Denver’s mediocre report card on traffic fatalities (Westword)
• Police battle drivers who block highways for weekend racing. (Denver7)
• Car2Go merging with BMW’s car sharing service. (Daily Hive)
• “Mr. Money Mustache” planning a car-free and bicycle-friendly development for 50,000 between Longmont and Boulder called Cyclocroft. (Forbes)
• National headlines at Streetsblog USA.

• “Patricio Martinez killed a 20-year-old motorcyclist in 1994 on his fifth DUI. Since being released, he’s been busted driving drunk three more times.” (9 News)
• Aurora police filed nine charges against the RTD driver accused of causing the R Line derailment last month that injured several passengers. (CBS4)
• P3 problems: RTD’s A-Line contractor seeks a trial in its $80 million lawsuit against the agency for problems with the public-private partnership. (CPR)
• Epic carsickness: Instead of building a $100 million parking lot, A-Basin said no to the Epic Pass. (Business Denver)
• attacked him for fast pace of development. (Denver Post)
• Map: Where is affordable housing in Denver? (Denverite)
• Strike planned: Grand Valley Transit (Grand Junction) union members want higher wages, including a $15 starting wage, from the private contractor they work for. (Daily Sentinel)
• Hancock says Denver has had an “absolutely phenomenal run” after mayoral candidates
• National headlines at Streetsblog USA.

Correction: The headline on ski resort parking was corrected to reflect that A-Basin quit the Epic Pass, not Loveland. However, Loveland’s parking problems are discussed in that story. 

Yesterday members of the Colorado House Transportation Committee killed HB1099, a bill that would have banned automated traffic enforcement statewide, including photo red light cameras.

Top photo: After a legislative victory, members of the Denver Streets Partnership posed for a photo outside of the State Capitol: Jack Todd and Piep van Heuven of Bicycle Colorado, Jill Locantore of WalkDenver, and Jaime Lewis of the Colorado Cross Disability Coalition.

Bottom photos: Rep. Jovan Melton (D-Aurora) and Rep. Stephen Humphrey (R-Greeley), co-sponsored the bill.

Before the hearing, Melton used false information to defend the bill. Photos: Andy Bosselman.

• Members of a Colorado House committee “rejected what has become an annual attempt to kill off” automated enforcement in an 8-3 vote. (Colorado Springs Gazette)

Other news

• Denver Post story fails to discuss pedestrian and cyclist safety in story about the massive “diverging diamond intersection” CDOT proposed at Kipling Street and Interstate 70 in Wheat Ridge. (Denver Post)
• More on the Colorado Safety Stop ordinance in Thornton that allows cyclists to slow-roll through stop signs. (Fox 31)
• National headlines at Streetsblog USA.

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