Lime Just Became the Biggest Micromobility Company in the World
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Let's unpack last week's Uber-Lime deal. It's not as weird as it sounds.
Friday’s Headlines & Traffic Violence Report 5/8/20
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- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
Traffic Violence
Metro News
- Join the Denver Streets Partnership PhotoVoices Project (DSP)
- Traffic picks up even as most metro area counties remain under stay-at-home order (9News)
- Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 39 (Good). Yesterday’s max: 90 (Moderate).
Centennial State & Beyond
- Seattle will permanently close 20 miles of residential streets to most vehicle traffic (Seattle Times)
- Why can’t Denver do this?
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Traffic Violence Report 5/8/20 – 15 killed on Denver streets in 2020
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Fifteen people have died from traffic violence on Denver streets in 2020. Six of the victims were on foot and nine were in a vehicle.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has pledged to end all traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2030 with the Denver Vision Zero Action Plan. In 2019 in Denver, 71 people died from traffic violence.
Thursday’s Headlines 5/7/20
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- Speeding Isn’t the Only Dangerous Driving Behavior On the Rise During COVID-19 (StreetsblogUSA)
- Don’t Let Mask Laws Become Another Way We Over-Police Pedestrians (Streetsblog USA)
- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
Metro News
- RTD Prepares For More Passengers, Face Masks, Social Distancing (CBS4 Denver)
- Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 51 (Moderate). Yesterday’s max: 87 (Moderate).
Centennial State & Beyond
- Who Will Ride Transit After Coronavirus? (CityLab)
- Responding to COVID-19 With Agile, Data-Driven Service Changes (TransitCenter)
- The pandemic could make cities more bike-friendly—for good (Popular Science)
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Speeding Isn’t the Only Dangerous Driving Behavior On the Rise During COVID-19
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Drivers aren’t just speeding up on our empty roads — they’re also braking harder, scrolling cell phones longer, and crashing more, new data show. In the five weeks after many states announced lockdown orders on March 16, the data company Zendrive said drivers’ use of cell phones behind the wheel is up 38 percent over […]
Don’t Let Mask Laws Become Another Way We Over-Police Pedestrians
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The U.S. has a long and disturbing history of imposing bad policies on walkers — and selectively enforcing the good ones.
Wednesday’s Headlines 5/6/20
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- How Bad Might the Post-Pandemic Carpocalypse Be? (Streetsblog USA)
- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
Metro News
- RTD will put social distancing, other measures in place (9News)
- Report: light rail lines suffer from over-expansion, unwise routing (COPolitics)
- Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 31 (Good). Yesterday’s max: 84 (Moderate).
Centennial State & Beyond
- There is a race, gender and finance divide in public transit usage during the Covid-19 pandemic. (iTS International)
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How Bad Might the Post-Pandemic Carpocalypse Be?
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Travel times will rise dramatically — and by as much as 42 minutes each way in San Francisco! — if cities don't encourage residents to return public buses and trains and stay out of their cars when the coronavirus pandemic is over.
Tuesday’s Headlines 5/5/20
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- The Problem With Just Giving Streets to Restaurants (Streetsblog USA)
- Op-Ed: Let’s Pay Artists to Make “Open Streets” Events Better (Streetsblog USA)
- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
Metro News
- Makeshift street signage returns to Boulder as cars maintain access amid coronavirus (Daily Camera)
- Police took down a majority of the signs within days
- Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 51 (Moderate). Yesterday’s max: 74 (Moderate).
Centennial State & Beyond
- Even During a Lockdown, Public Transport Can Be a Lifeline (NextCity)
- The E-bike surge is real (TreeHugger)
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The Problem With Just Giving Streets to Restaurants
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Let's get creative with the 70 percent of public space dedicated to storing and moving cars. There are a ton of extraordinary things the public can do with that valuable real estate.
Op-Ed: Let’s Pay Artists to Make ‘Open Streets’ Better
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Smart Growth America and is republished with permission. The burgeoning open streets movement brought on by the pandemic has created more space for people, provided lessons in how to quickly test ideas successfully (like in Minneapolis and Oakland) and unsuccessfully (like in New York City), and shown that […]
Monday’s Headlines 5/4/20
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- NYC Launches ‘Open Streets’ – Without Cop Enforcement (Streetsblog USA)
- Georgia Rescinds Driver’s License Road Test (Streetsblog USA)
- This is really, really bad idea
- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
Metro News
- Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 40 (Good). Yesterday’s max: 74 (Moderate).
Centennial State & Beyond
- Pedal the Plains Is Canceled…for September (Westword)
- Getting Around After COVID-19 Could Get Better — Or It Could Get Worse (NextCity)
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