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RTD’s Board Told What It Takes to Increase Ridership. But Will It Listen?
A celebrated transit planner who is so talented that he even got Houston bus ridership to increase may not be able to bring the same success to Denver for one simple reason: politics.
July 31, 2019
Wednesday’s Headlines
Amid four more traffic fatalities, the cycling community will remember fallen bicycle riders and demonstrate for safer streets at three different events, including candlelight vigil tonight.
July 31, 2019
Tuesday’s Headlines
Cyclists will protest and mourn recent deaths with events this week. Police explain why the driver in Alexis Bounds’ death was not charged with a felony. Access to RTD's new discount program is behind a confusing, complicated and glitchy website.
July 30, 2019
Applying for RTD’s New Discount Program? A Confusing, Complicated and Glitchy Website Awaits.
A 40-percent discount transit program for the poor rolled out today with an online application process that’s so confusing it requires 60 pages of instructions and left one of the leaders of an organization that helped to launch it perplexed where to start.
July 29, 2019
A Denver Newscaster’s Epic Takedown of Bike-Lane Nimbys
After a woman on a bike was killed on Marion Street, opponents of proposed safety upgrades to a bike lane there tried to justify their opposition — in classic Nimby style — by saying the street was in a historic district. But Kyle Clark wasn’t having it.
July 26, 2019
Friday’s Headlines
A driver killed another bicyclist and bike lane opponents in the area still oppose safety upgrades to Marion Street. The death of an elite cyclist near Boulder shows a trend of increasing bike fatalities in Colorado. The key to raising more money for transportation could be asking fewer people.
July 26, 2019
Updated: Another Bicyclist Dead and Bike Opponents Still Reject Marion Safety Upgrades
A woman riding in a bike lane near Washington Park died yesterday after a driver crashed his work vehicle into her. A group of neighbors are fighting to stop upgrades to a bike lane on the street — and even advocates agree that white plastic posts are not the answer.
July 25, 2019
Thursday’s Headlines
A driver hit and killed a woman riding a bike yesterday on South Marion Street where NIMBYs oppose improvements to a bike lane. Scooters are another sign of big tech colonizing public spaces. Bustang is planning direct service to ski areas.
July 25, 2019
Commentary: Scooters Another Sign of Big Tech Colonizing Public Spaces
Big Tech companies like Uber, Airbnb — and now scooter providers — aim to satisfy their customers with little regard for how their businesses affect our cities’ ecosystems. With new technologies like delivery drones and robots on the way, scooters may well be the Trojan Horse with which big tech colonizes the world’s public space.
July 24, 2019
Wednesday’s Headlines
482 crashes seriously injured five last week. The city will install temporary traffic calming measures on Santa Fe but then spend two years planning permanent measures. Commentary: Are scooters a transit solution or a Trojan Horse for big tech to colonize our public spaces?
July 24, 2019
