EV Hummer Bummer, Part III: The Machine Still Kills
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It's the third installment of our series examining why GMC's "quiet revolution" is just very loud greenwashing.
Thursday’s Headlines
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- Series: The Electric Hummer Will Be Bad For The Planet (Streetsblog USA)
Other news
- Virginia Village could get a bike lane connecting cyclists to two major corridors (Denverite)
- RTD service changes: “They’re not just throwing darts.” (RTD news release)
- Two RTD Board of Directors committees meet today (RTD website)
- Communications & Government Relations Committee (agenda includes a communications plan)
- Planning/Capital Programs & FasTracks Committee (agenda includes 16th Street Mall pavers)
- How Many Distracted Drivers Get Cited? (Colorado Matters/CPR)
- Curbed wants to know: Denver’s public works department solicited designs for scooter-parking corrals in an effort to “reclaim” streetspace for people. Why is the city not giving scooter users safer places in the street to ride them? (Curbed)
- Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 57 Moderate. Yesterday’s max: 52 Moderate.
- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
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Talking Headways Podcast: Complicated Measures and Public Policy (Part I)
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We're talking with Professor David Levinson of the University of Sydney about measuring access, pricing, understanding the growth of cities.
EV Hummer Bummer, Part II: Bad News For Emissions
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This is the second part of Streetsblog's ongoing series about GMC's new Hummer EV — which is a disaster no matter that it's powered by electrons instead of gasoline.
Wednesday’s Headlines
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- The Denver Police Department seeks [ahem, the driver of] a suspect silver Toyota Tacoma pickup truck that hit a person walking and then fled on Jan. 19 at the southbound I-25 exit ramp at West Alameda (Denver Police Twitter)
- Lowry residents want safety enhancements for people walking at North Roslyn Street and East Second Avenue Parkway (FOX31/Channel 2)
- 2 bike lane snow plows
+ 9 miles of protected bike lanes
= Denver’s snow removal situation (CBS 4) - You can volunteer as a Denver Snow Angel to shovel sidewalks for your neighbors and make life better for people walking and rolling (City and County of Denver)
- Colorado vowed to end the waitlist for an adult disability program by 2020. Nearly 3,000 people are still waiting for services including transportation. (The Colorado Sun)
- Englewood: Efforts to reboot downtown area around city’s light rail stop to kick into high gear in 2020 (The Denver Post)
- Estes Park: CDOT to install roundabout for traffic safety (Estes Park Trail Gazette)
- Aspen: North Star Nature Preserve area management plan will reduce parking for single-occupancy vehicles and encourage shuttles (The Aspen Times)
- Grand Junction: CDOT plans improvements for people walking and biking plus traffic-calming streets design with roudabouts and reduced speed limits for people driving (The Daily Sentinel)
- Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 46 Good. Yesterday’s max: 38 Good.
- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
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The Electric Hummer Will Be Bad For The Planet
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The Hummer EV is being bill as a "quiet revolution" — and it is, but not for the reasons GMC wants you to think.
Tuesday’s Headlines
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- Commentary by Tenly Williams: Feel the Love This Winter Bike to Work Day (Streetsblog Denver)
- Commentary by Doug Gordon: Is Denver Ready for The War on Cars? (Streetsblog Denver)
Other news
- A few local media outlets talk about transit schedules and plowing bike lanes in snowy-rush-hour stories! Other outlets — which shall remain nameless — not so much. (Denverite, CPR, and The Denver Post)
- What is the RTD board of directors up to today? Meetings of the Communications & Government Relations Committee and the Planning/Capital Programs & FasTracks Committee (RTD calendar)
- What does John Elway do when the Broncos aren’t in the Super Bowl? Ride a Lime scooter, apparently. (ClutchPoints)
- Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 32 Good. Yesterday’s max: 45 Good.
- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
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Commentary: Is Denver Ready for The War on Cars?
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Doug Gordon says if there is any sort of war on America’s streets, it’s being inflicted on other road users by cars and the people who drive them.
Commentary: Feel the Love This Winter Bike to Work Day
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To many, “winter biking” sounds like an oxymoron. To Tenly Williams, it is pure love.
Monday’s Headlines
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- Scooter rider Cheri Rael searches for the driver who struck her with blue SUV at 28th Avenue and Syracuse (CBS4)
- [A person driving] an automobile hit and seriously injured a person riding a bike in the area of Jason and Mississippi on Jan. 31 (Denver Police Twitter)
- Denver Police seek [the driver of a] vehicle that hit a person walking on southbound Peoria between 45th and 46th Avenue on Jan. 30 (Denver Police Twitter)
RTD
- GPS signal issues continue to affect RTD’s Positive Train Control in Denver (Railway Track & Structures)
- Letters: How to solve RTD’s woes (The Denver Post)
- Opinion: Time to reassess the premise of public transit?… in which the writer examines RTD service as a public good that needs an update (Colorado Politics)
- Opinion: RTD reform bill leaves taxpayers waiting at the station… in which the writer discounts the benefits of a robust transit system as a public good for all (Complete Colorado)
Farewell, Denver B-cycle
- B-cycle bike sharing program ends, City plans to improve ‘micromobility’ (CBS4)
- A military veteran says goodbye to the B-cycle bikes he loved (9News)
- Opinion: To B or not to B? A love story for some, but Denver just wasn’t that into these two-wheel beauties (The Colorado Sun)
Other news
- Denver is full of distracted drivers because nobody’s stopping them (Denverite)
- Five Colorado mayors talk transportation and funding, propose cities can do it better than state and federal government (Colorado Politics)
- Three Denverites respond to The Denver Post editorial board’s bike lane commentary of “Just don’t make things worse” (The Denver Post)
- Feb. 11: Federal hearing in Denver and Natural Resources Defense Council rally to support the National Environmental Policy Act and Colorado mobility projects (NRDC blog)
- Inside the European-style pedestrian-friendly streets of River Mile, one of the largest redevelopments in Denver’s history (5280)
- Editorial: E-scooters would further City of Boulder’s goals (Daily Camera)
- Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 33 Good. Yesterday’s max: 54 Moderate.
- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
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Federal Bus Grants Are Just Too Damn Low
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Federal bus grants of $454.6 million sound like a lot...until you consider that it's for the whole country.
It’s Time to Play Super Bowl Car Ad Bingo!
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Coord invites cities and other curb managers to apply for its Digital Curb Challenge to undertake a free curb management pilot program in 2020. Applications close on Feb. 14. Click here for information. Super Bowl Sunday means one thing: it’s time for the most aggressively stupid car commercials of the year! The annual car culture climax […]