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

- How to Open Streets Right During Social Distancing - RTD Braces For At Least A Quarter-Billion-Dollar Hit From Coronavirus - Protecting Transit Workers is a Matter of Racial Justice

We need more space — which means we need a new blueprint for how to do Open Streets events during this challenging global moment and beyond.

- Federal Corona Bill Seems Generous To Transit. It’s Not - Federal Boulevard is getting another median in the name of pedestrian safety - What’s Wrong with an Empty Bus?

New crisis, same old mistakes. The Federal Transit Administration’s $25-billion COVID-19 public transit grant package contains much-needed lifelines for struggling transit agencies across the country — but the amount received by each agency did not take into account the new reality of the virus, but were allocated using the same formulas from normal years. As a […]

- Denver's closed streets helped people stretch their legs. - City says more closures to come - The post-pandemic urban future is already here

...with some very important exceptions.

- Some Denver streets closed to cars & it was awesome - RTD not collecting fares, allowing rear-door boarding - RTD drivers say agency not doing enough to protect them from COVID-19

Americans are indeed driving less — up to 94 percent less in some places — as the global COVID-19 pandemic keeps people at home, but rural segments of the country are not doing their share to flatten the curve.