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Commentary: How a new emphasis on safer streets could drive big change in Colorado

By Danny Katz | May 4, 2021 | No Comments

Colorado's wowntowns, main streets, and the urban arterials that have become so many of our main streets should be vibrant community centers, but people need to feel safe accessing them, no matter how they get there.

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Commentary: 100 Years of School Safety Patrol Coming to Denver

By Cassie Tanner | Apr 20, 2021 | No Comments

AAA Colorado is always looking to expand the School Safety Patrol program, especially with a renewed focus on Denver to align with the City’s Vision Zero initiatives and its Safe Routes to School 5-Year Action Plan, now in development.

RTD 15 bus in red bus-only lane on 15th Street in Denver

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Commentary: Rolling Out The Red Carpet For Transit

By Matt Frommer | Mar 24, 2021 | No Comments

If you draw a massive venn diagram of all the characteristics we want out of our transportation system – safety, affordability, less congestion, less pollution, and more access that’s more equitable – you’ll find transit sitting right at the sweet spot in the center. This year, 2021, is the year to build a more robust and sophisticated transit system in Denver, and we may finally have the funding to do it, writes Matt Frommer, a Senior Transportation Associate with the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP).

Bad bus stops in Pittsburgh and Littleton

SORRIEST BUS STOPS 2021: Pittsburgh vs. Littleton

By Kea Wilson | Mar 21, 2021 | No Comments

This is the fourth first-round matchup in the Sweet 16 round of our annual Sorriest Bus Stop contest (voting continues through Sunday at 4 p.m. Eastern). In our previous first-round bouts, Narberth demolished Trenton, Quebec City advanced to the Abominable Eight with a complete destruction of Philadelphia; and Queens devastated Lynchburg.

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Commentary: Is Denver Ready for The War on Cars?

By Doug Gordon | Feb 3, 2020 | No Comments

Doug Gordon says if there is any sort of war on America’s streets, it’s being inflicted on other road users by cars and the people who drive them.

A traffic crash that involved a cyclist near Union Station on September 4, 2007. Photo: Flickr

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Colorado Isn’t Even Trying to Reduce Traffic Deaths

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 14, 2019 | 7 Comments

Colorado aims for more traffic deaths under a new federal program requiring them to set targets. The state shows a disappointing lack of ambition in keeping its own residents alive and healthy, said policy leaders at Transportation for America.