pollution
Wednesday’s Headlines 8/18/21: Ozone concentrations still hanging around
We’re taking a late Summer break and will return next week. Until then, we need your sidewalk photos! Show us your sidewalk to nowhere, your daily obstacle course, or the remnants of a sidewalk past. Post with #DenverDeservesSidewalks or #SadSidewalks or email them to info@streetsblog.org Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area Ozone concentrations continue to … Continued
August 18, 2021
Friday’s Headlines 8/13/21: A Five Points parking lot to become housing
Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area A free Five Points parking lot owned by RTD will go from spots for cars to homes for people we like this. (Denverite) Car Slams Into Back Of Coffee Shop In Deadly Crash On Hampden Avenue (CBS Local) Denver Ties Record For Summer Bad Air Days As Threat For … Continued
August 13, 2021
Wednesday’s Headlines 8/11/21: Let’s not get distracted by shiny new things
From Streetsblog Let’s not get distracted by shiny new things (Streetsblog Denver) Wednesday’s Headlines Are Burning Up (Streetsblog USA) ‘Very Flawed’ Infrastructure Bill Passes Senate, Imperfect Reconciliation Bill Looms (Streetsblog USA) Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area Denver hits 37 days under air quality warning; smoke expected to improve slightly Wednesday (Fox 31) Woman seriously … Continued
August 11, 2021
Tuesday’s Headlines 8/10/21: The pedestrian blaming is strong in Colorado Springs
Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area Motorcyclist dies after crash west of University Boulevard (Fox 31) What makes Denver’s air quality go bad? It’s not just fires we’ll give you one guess… (Fox 31) Denver’s Sloan’s Lake neighborhood to be rezoned to allow ‘granny flats’ (The Denver Gazette) 38 straight days of Air Quality Warnings: Unhealthy ozone … Continued
August 10, 2021
Monday’s Headlines 8/9/21: Forget 7th, we’re number 1.
Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area Denver ranks No. 1 in list of international cities for air pollution Saturday but by all means, drive your car as much as you’d like (The Denver Post) Denver Records Worst Air Quality of Any Major City in World as Wildfires Burn (Slate) Poor Air Quality Persists Across Colorado, … Continued
August 9, 2021
Friday’s Headlines 8/6/21: The next phase of shared streets is to get rid of some shared streets
Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area The next phase of shared streets is to get rid of some shared streets — and plan for permanent ones (Denverite) Denver ranked among the top-5 most-polluted cities in the world Thursday (9 News) Boston transit employee paid $220,000-plus working for Boston and RTD in Denver (The Denver Post) … Continued
August 6, 2021
Thursday’s Headlines 8/5/21: We’re number 7! …in poor air quality.
Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area ‘Air quality so poor that it’s like smoking nearly 2 cigarettes’; Denver has the 7th worst air quality in the world if you had to choose your car or clean air… (KDVR) Downtown Denver Partnership CEO Tami Door to leave after 17 years (The Denver Gazette) Denver Air Quality … Continued
August 5, 2021
Wednesday’s Headlines 8/4/21: How can we clean the air, reduce traffic, and expand job opportunity?
Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area Opinion: We already have a tool that can clean the air, reduce traffic, and expand job opportunity: the bus (The Colorado Sun) Authorities have recovered a body at City Park lake after getting call of cyclist who went in and did not resurface (Denverite) Auraria Bike Pavilions by Colorado … Continued
August 4, 2021
Tuesday’s Headlines 8/3/21: RTD bus driver attacked on duty
Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area RTD driver attacked on duty, woman gets caught on bus (Fox 31) Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run in east Denver; driver at-large (Denver Gazette) Denver’s air quality got even worse than the last time we wrote this headline (Denverite) The woman who hit a protester with her car in Denver … Continued
August 3, 2021
Today’s Headlines 8/2/21: Hit and run believed to be cause of pedestrian fatality
Denver, RTD, and the Metro Area Hit and run believed to be cause of pedestrian fatality (Denver Police Department) Denver asks for public input on upcoming city redistricting (Denver Gazette) Driver Crashes Into Colorado State Trooper’s Vehicle On C-470 (CBS Local) Suspect at large in hit-and-run rollover crash at I-70 and Havana (Fox 31) La … Continued
August 2, 2021