From Streetsblog

• A new report shows a 102% increase in Metro Denver auto emissions. The news comes one day before Greta Thunberg arrives to lead a climate strike. (Streetsblog Denver)

Other news

• If Greta Thunberg wins the Nobel Peace Prize today, she’ll win it in Colorado. (CPR) (today’s strike details)
• Snow led to dozens of collisions throughout the Denver metro, including an RTD bus that crashed on I-25. (9 News)
• Next week, Uber will allow pets on rides, for a fee. (CBS4)
• Proposition CC: “In one of the most significant potential changes to state fiscal policy in decades, Colorado voters this November will be asked to permanently eliminate a revenue cap that has both restrained and reshaped state government since 1992.” (Colorado Sun)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 6 a.m.: 35 Good. Yesterday’s max: 65 Moderate.
• National headlines at Streetsblog USA.

From Streetsblog

• Commentary: The first media reports about bicycle crashes can be inaccurate, according to this essay from Adelaide Perr, a Boulder-based professional triathlete who was injured seriously in a 2014 crash with a reckless driver. (Streetsblog Denver)

Other news

• Denver City Council sent Mayor Hancock its budget requests, including $1.5 million for sidewalks, $500,000 for safety measures along routes to schools and $730,000 for Vision Zero improvements in areas with a high rate of injuries. (Colorado Politics)
• As RTD “reimagines” itself, the agency’s “years-long driver shortage … has impacted the frequency and reliability of many of its bus routes and rail lines.” (Westword)
• “Denver leaders don’t want people in all these new buildings to drive (or park).” (Denverite)
• At CDOT’s safety summit, a patrolman shared how responding to a crash that killed an eight-year-old boy affected him personally. (Colorado Springs Gazette)
• Greta Thunberg will strike with Denver climate activists Friday. (Denver Post)
• Ten of downtown’s best new buildings, according to Westword’s Michael Paglia. (Westword)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 6 a.m.: 64 Moderate. Yesterday’s max: 69 Moderate.
• National headlines at Streetsblog USA.

From Streetsblog

• A 31-year-old man on a bicycle was killed in a crash. The road fatality is the 62nd so far this year, which is the same number of people killed on the city’s streets in all of 2018. (Streetsblog Denver)

Other news

• New transit options like RTD’s G Line into Arvada have spurred building booms along transit corridors, and they’ve shown that a more sustainable, car-free commute is possible, at least for a small group of riders. (Curbed)
• Blind residents are concerned about a plan to remove curbs from the 16th Street Mall. (CBS4)
• New tech will allow CDOT to monitor the weather and vary speed limits in Glenwood Canyon, which would allow the agency to increase the speed limit from 60 mph to 70 mph. (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)
• National headlines at Streetsblog USA.

Urbanism & Environment

• A transit-oriented development could come to a four-acre site near RTD’s station at Colorado Boulevard and Evans Avenue. (Denverite)
• The Ramada Inn on East Colfax could become 336 units of housing with ground-floor retail. (Business Den)
• Growth coming to Denver exurb Elizabeth, population 1,700, prompts an effort to recall the entire elected government. (Denver Post)
• Emissions from oil and gas drilling contribute to Front Range ozone levels, which exceed federal standards. The state says it’s working to drive down those emissions. Yet regulators have issued over 1,100 drilling permits in the region since January. (Colorado Independent) (h/t John Herrick)
• Denver Air Quality Index: 7 a.m.: 58 Moderate. Yesterday’s max: 61 Moderate.