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- Transportation GHG Emissions: What Denver Can Learn from Other Cities - Polis Urges Property Owners To Let Restaurants Use Their Outdoor Space - The Toxic Intersection of Racism and Public Space

- Long weekend of traffic violence - Hundreds of restaurants applying for outdoor expansion - RTD faces serious headwinds

Erin Nobler is a PhD student in the College of Architecture and Planning at CU Denver studying transportation planning, equity, and energy.  High single-occupancy vehicle use and a rapidly increasing population in Denver means that our city creates on the order of 2.5 million metric tons (or approximately 5.5 billion pounds) of private transportation-related greenhouse … Continued

- There's now a COVID-19 playbook for cities - Denver Streets Partnership grades city's 'Vision Zero' progress, advocates for further changes - Jump bikes roll back into Denver with a focus on food deserts and sanitized handlebars - Traffic Violence

Streetsblog Denver would like to thank The O’Sullivan Personal Injury Law Firm for supporting this series. Financial contributions do not influence our content.  Seventeen people have died from traffic violence on Denver streets in 2020. Six of the victims were on foot, two were on motorcycles, and nine were in a vehicle. Denver Mayor Michael … Continued

The group's member cities have been working hard to make public space as safe as possible during the pandemic — and the organization just compiled their best strategies.

- City Council wants streets closed until Labor Day - RTD's N Line on track to open by September - Public Engagement in the Era of COVID-19

- POST-COVID: Safety Isn’t Only About Infrastructure - Denver street racing incidents triple during pandemic compared to same time last year - Slow streets are the path to a better city

It's not too late for cities to prevent a total carmageddon as their COVID-19 lockdowns ease — and they need to think beyond simple infrastructure to get it done.