Denver

• COVID pushed back Little Saigon’s BID effort, so Denver Streets Partnership advocates have stepped in to act like one (Denverite)
• What’s Driving You Crazy? The intersection of Downing and Louisiana, at the corner of Wash Park. Let me rewrite that for you, Denver7: Denver is making Downing and Louisiana safer for people walking and riding bikes (Denver7)
• What Transit Looks like for MSU Denver Students during the pandemic (Met Media)
• Group living reform offers “foundation of change” for Denver halfway houses after vote killing private prison contracts… and allows more people to live near transit (Denver Post)
• 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; Tue 5:00 p.m. General Public Comment Session followed by 5:30 p.m. City Council meeting (since yesterday was a holiday); Wed 10:30 a.m. Safety Housing Education Homelessness Committee (Committee canceled/consent agenda included.); Wed 1:30 p.m. Business Arts Workforce Aviation Services Committee; Thur 9:30 a.m. Budget and Policy Committee Committee canceled/consent agenda included) (Denver City Council)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 97 (Moderate). Yesterday’s max: 77 (Moderate).

RTD

• RTD Asked Polis For A Dialogue About The Boulder And Longmont Train. They Got A Lecture Instead. (CPR)
• Completing the RTD Northwest Rail Line will take partnership and money (RTD)
• RTD Black History Month features: Mechanic Brandon Brown and businesses Jeffery B Jewelry and Boney’s BBQ on Route 83L (RTD)
• RTD board meetings this week: none scheduled (RTD)

Centennial State

• Shoshana Lew and Karen Stuart: Transparency in Colorado transportation starts with talking to our neighbors (Colorado Sun)
• Under New Management: Colorado’s New House Speaker Faces Challenges [including transportation funding] As Legislature Reconvenes (CPR)
• Legislature reconvenes, focus still on pandemic, economy… and transportation funding (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel)
• Legislative leaders clash on fee hikes, public trust (Colorado Politics)

From Streetsblog

• Tuesday’s Headlines to Really Start the Workweek (Streetsblog USA)
• Monday’s Headlines to Celebrate Presidents Day (Streetsblog USA)
• The Reason More Women Drivers Die in Car Crashes? Men driving SUVs. (Streetsblog USA)
• House Support for Transit is Good, Not Great (Streetsblog USA)
  • And you could contact your Congressperson about it

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Traffic Violence

• Traffic Violence Report: Eight people have died from Denver traffic violence in 2021, including Maria Rosales this week as she was walking on East Hampden (Streetsblog Denver)

Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area

• Hal Bidlack: DIA workers deserve a break on bus fare (Colorado Politics)
• Denver’s government is starting a new public process to transform law enforcement after leaving the one started by civilians (Denverite)
• Nicholas Garza: RTD needs to build Northwest Rail Line now, not by 2050 (Longmont Times-Call)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 9 a.m.: 63 (Moderate). Yesterday’s max: 73 (Moderate).

Centennial State and Beyond

• Colorado sees increase in fatal accidents in 2020 despite fewer cars on the road… but not necessarily in tourism counties (Summit Daily)
• As legislative session gets ready to restart, economic recovery tops lawmakers’ list of priorities, and transportation funding is on the list somewhere (Denver7)
• Amtrak CEO’s Priorities Could Be Good News For Train Travel In Colorado (CPR)

From Streetsblog

• Friday’s Headlines to Ring in the Year of the Ox (Streetsblog USA)
• How to Support Women on Bikes in Winter (Streetsblog USA)

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Traffic Violence

• ‘Strong, independent and fearless’: Family remembers mother and daughter killed in crash with Denver Fire truck at North Broadway and Speer Boulevard (9News)

Denver and the Metro Area

• Some Denver parks will remain car-free through winter! (9News)
• CBS4 has an extremely confusing story called “Nonprofit Aims To Boost Denver’s Revenue By Tackling Declining Parking Numbers”… and I assure you, the Denver Streets Partnership is not trying to do that (CBS4)
• But the Denver Streets Partnership and Denver Healthy Eating Active Living are hosting a virtual Vision Zero Love-In today through Sunday to appreciate local main streets and local businesses (Facebook)
• Denver police officer reconnects to community through bike patrol (Denver7)
• City of Denver seeks input on Civic Center Park improvements, and there’s a virtual public meeting tonight (Fox31)
• Public planning process for Park Hill golf course land begins as some cringe at the possibilities (Denverite)
• Broomfield names pedestrian bridge after beloved dog that hung out with toll attendants working on U.S. 36 in the 1950s. Seriously. (9News)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 1 p.m.: 72 (Moderate). Yesterday’s max: 75 (Moderate).

RTD

• The COVID-19 vaccination event story we’ve been awaiting: RTD partners with SCL Health to provide shuttles to mass vaccination event over the weekend *insert celebration emojis here* (RTD)
• Longmont may still get its long-promised RTD rail line. But it may need help from Amtrak. (Colorado Sun)
• RTD to renew Longmont rail plan in next 60 days (9News)
• Northwest Rail: end of line hopefully won’t be Westminster (Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel)
• RTD contractor conducting repairs on Nine Mile Park-n-Ride (RTD)
• Video: RTD End of Year 2020 (RTD)
• RTD CEO/GM Debra Johnson will speak Feb. 23 on a webinar called Taking the Helm in a Storm: New Transit Leadership During the COVID Crisis (TransitCenter)

Centennial State and Beyond

• State Rep. Matt Gray and Sen. Faith Winter – “the General Assembly’s dynamic duo on transportation” – say Polis, leadership on board with road funding proposal, and the dynamic duo wants more multimodal (Colorado Politics)
• North I-25 Express Lanes Project near U.S. 34 interchange will have bus slips and mobility hub (Coloradoan)
• Loveland council talks alternative transportation during ‘Connect Loveland’ conversation (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
• Bustang to expand in July with five-day-a-week round trips between Telluride to Grand Junction and stops in Delta, Olathe, Montrose, Ridgway, and Placerville (Ouray County Plaindealer, Montrose Press)
• Editorial: Let’s not fail this Tennessee Pass (Railway Track & Structures)

From Streetsblog

• Thursday’s Headlines for the People (Streetsblog USA)
• Study: Yes, More Parking Does Put More Cars on the Road (Streetsblog USA)
• New Bill in Congress Would Help Americans Buy E-Bikes (Streetsblog USA)
• The Bike Parking Revolution is Here in NYC (Streetsblog NYC)
• Talking Headways Podcast: Revel, Revel — Mopeds Make their Mark (Streetsblog USA)

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Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area

• For First Time In 100+ Years, Denver Looks To Drastically Improve Civic Center Park (CBS4)
  • All About Denver’s ‘Civic Center Next 100’ Initiative (CBS4)
  • And you can provide walking, biking, and transit input Thursday, Feb. 11 at 5:30 p.m. over Zoom (City and County of Denver – Outdoor Downtown)
• Speaking of parks, the Denver Parks & Recreation Advisory Board meets today at 5:30 p.m. on Zoom, and they will discuss car-free parks, and perhaps you could tell them you like car-free parks (City and County of Denver – PRAB)
• Denver International Airport service workers rally for extension of RTD EcoPass (Colorado Politics)
• After Polis’ Arm Twist, RTD Looks To Restart Boulder Rail Project (CPR)
• Light rail to nowhere? RTD estimates extension to Boulder, Longmont won’t be built until 2042 (Denver7)
• Polis calls RTD’s 20-plus year timeline for completion of Northwest Rail not a “legitimate” date (Boulder Daily Camera)
  • “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” (Inigo Montoya)
• Push for rail line to Boulder moves ahead but divides RTD board (Denver Business Journal)
• Cities – including Denver – Rev Up Transition to EVs with Car Sharing Programs (NRDC)
• Eight ways to get around CU’s campus… and cars are #8 (CU Boulder Today)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 9 a.m.: 72 (Moderate). Yesterday’s max: 78 (Moderate).

Centennial State and Beyond

• How Colorado’s Free E-Bike Program Fits Into Its Plan To Slow Climate Change (CPR)

From Streetsblog

• Wednesday’s Headlines to Hit Midweek (Streetsblog USA)
• How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses (Streetsblog USA)

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