Tuesday’s Headlines: 2/25/20

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Metro News

  • Driven to Exhaustion: Can Denver End Its Love Affair With the Car? (Westword)
  • Mayor Hancock said all the right things in his interview with CPR. Will he follow through?
  • Denver is home to three of worst traffic bottlenecks in U.S. (Denver Biz Journal & Westword)
  • Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 41 (Good). Yesterday’s max: 48 (Good).

Centennial State & Beyond

  • Concerns Grow Over Implementation of State’s New Climate Rules (Westword)
  • The Fishing Pier Problem in Public Transit Equity (Human Transit)
  • 140 countries pledged to eliminate traffic deaths. The U.S. did not. (Curbed)

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Monday’s Headlines: 2/24/20

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Metro News

Centennial State & Beyond

  • Prairie Politics: Don’t stay in your lane (Pueblo Chieftan)
  • Red light cameras are coming to 2 more Fort Collins intersections (Coloradoan)
  • Here’s What Happens When Public Transit Is Free (HuffPost)

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Friday’s Headlines: 2/21/20

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Traffic Violence

  • Pedestrian struck, killed by (person driving a) vehicle in Lakewood (Fox31Denver)
  • Fatal Crash Closes Broncos Parkway Near Parker Road (CBS4Denver)

Metro News

  • Colorado lawmakers hear from people with disabilities as RTD struggles to provide service (The Denver Channel)
    • Don’t forget, Now’s Your Chance To Tell RTD What You Think Of Its Plan For Service Cuts (CPR)
  • Boulder County amends transportation master plan, including “vision zero” goal (Colorado Politics)
  • Tackling climate change in Denver means rethinking how we get around our city (WalkDenver)
  • Proposed RTD cuts to RunRide were top concern at Wednesday meeting in Boulder (Daily Camera)
  • Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 67 (Moderate). Yesterday’s max: 65 (Moderate).

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Thursday’s Headlines: 2/20/20

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Metro area news

  • Mayor Hancock names Grace Rink to head Denver’s first Climate Agency (Denver press release)
  • A Wider I-25 Could Be Coming. And CDOT May Soon Spend $50 Million To Start It (CPR)
  • This ain’t a joke: “Indoor wood-burning restrictions and a plea to limit driving are in effect in the metro area because of air-quality concerns.” (Denver Post) Yep, it’s that bad.
  • Police: 9 injured after kids steal truck, cause multi-vehicle crash involving RTD bus in Aurora (Denver Channel)
  • A mysterious hook-shaped snow band appeared over Denver on Wednesday (9News)

Centennial State & International news

  • People Seem To Like Riding The Bustang From Denver To Grand Junction, So CDOT Is Planning To Add Another Run (CPR)
  • Colorado Springs at a critical moment in designing downtown, urban expert warns (CO Springs Gazette)
  • Paris Mayor: It’s Time for a ’15-Minute City’ (CityLab)

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Wednesday’s Headlines: Feb. 19

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Other news

  • ‘Never Drove & Drank’: Charlie Leake, Uber passenger, killed in crash on I-225, police still seeking hit-and-run driver (CBS4 Denver)
  • 16th Street Mall Reconstruction Project’s Next Phase — and Rising Concerns (Westword)
  • Senate committee on RTD oversight bill shines a light on services for disabled riders people with disabilities (Denver Post and FOX31/Channel 2)
  • RTD to hold 18 public meetings on service cutbacks and changes, and now’s your chance to tell RTD what you think (The Denver Channel and CPR)
  • Letters: Hey Drivers: This isn’t war (P.S. author Jerry Tinianow wrote a guest column for Streetsblog Denver earlier this week). And a conservative from Thornton says “taxes can be good if used for their intended purposes” for roads and bridges (Denver Post Opinion)
  • Colorado is nowhere near on track to meet the emissions goals outlined in its Climate Action Plan (Westword)
  • Homeowner wants changes to state law as he is forced to delay retirement after uninsured driver crashed truck into his home (CBS4 Denver)
  • Tips for cycling through the snow (Wheat Ridge Transcript)
  • Lakewood transit-oriented development: Breaking ground on a 281-apartment building and 362-space parking structure next to the Sheridan Station on the W Line (Rebusiness Online)
  • Boulder County OKs $2 billion transportation master plan: Commissioners will leverage multiple sources of funding, possibly a tax, because they “can’t wait on the state forever” (Boulder Daily Camera)
  • Estes Park: CDOT to build a roundabout and make other safety improvements (North Forty News)
  • I-70 weekend traffic getting worse and causing more crashes (Colorado Politics)
  • Public transit on the Western Slope (KVNF Public Radio)
  • Grand Junction pedestrian/bicycle bridge postponed after not receiving CDOT Multi-modal Options Fund grant (Daily Sentinel)
  • Opinion: Our Electric Destiny, part one and part two (Pagosa Daily Post)
  • Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 49 (Good). Yesterday’s max: 51 (Moderate).

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