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This morning’s Streetsblog Denver Headlines included a story from the local Fox affiliate titled: “Denver surveying downtown bike lanes to make sure it’s a ‘return on investment.’” The story claimed incorrectly that the city installed traffic counters on several bikeways “to make sure people are using these bike lanes enough to justify the price.” She said … Continued

107 Officials: Bustang is a success. Now give us more service. Denver is conducting bike lane traffic counts to see the lanes justify their cost. Uber, Lyft and the A-Line have reduced demand for airport parking, DIA scrapping plans to build two new parking garages.

Bustang officials celebrated a sharp rise in ridership that bucks a national trend — and the service’s fourth anniversary achievement was marked with a giant birthday card signed by officials from 107 Colorado cities and towns whose constituents are taking advantage of the expanding service.

A reckless driver killed grandfather and local cycling legend Scott Hendrickson. NIMBYs get worked up over misinformation spread about proposed changes to a Congress Park bike lane. Kids paint downtown sidewalks to welcome visiting parks officials. More headlines...

A cyclist was hit and killed by a reckless driver at one of Denver's many unsafe intersections, the first person on a bike killed so far this year. Scott Hendrickson, who was 62, was an energetic and well-liked member of the local bicycle community.

Denver’s first bicycle death this year and two other fatalities come this week as Mayor Hancock says street safety will be an “urgent” priority. A 16-year-old boy crashed into an RTD bus stop, killing a woman and seriously injuring a man. RTD fired a rail operator after the vehicle nearly derailed and injured eight. More headlines ...

At inauguration, Hancock called for lower speed limits and better designed streets to keep cyclists and pedestrians safer. City Council approved contract to widen Peña Blvd. US 36 collapse: CDOT isn’t sure who to blame. More headlines ...

Mayor Hancock kicked off his third and final term today by calling for lower speed limits and better designed streets to keep cyclists and pedestrians safer in an “urgent” attempt to take back control of the streets from reckless car owners.  “Our streets must change to make way for more transit riders, bike riders and … Continued

A plan to widen the road to Denver International Airport, which would make traffic worse and wipe out the city’s newly-minted goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, will get a vote from the Denver City Council on Monday.