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Using Stress Maps to Identify Gaps in the Bike Network

By Angie Schmitt | May 6, 2016 | No Comments

Here’s an interesting way to evaluate how well a street network works for biking. Stephen Tu and Alex Rixey are mapping streets in Montgomery County, Maryland, based on how comfortable riders of different skill levels find them. Tu and Rixey based their mapping technique on the famous Portland survey that found “strong and fearless” riders willing […]

#StreetFail: Denver Police Block Bike Lane in Front of City Hall

By David Sachs | Apr 26, 2016 | 5 Comments

Here’s a #StreetFail that encapsulates one of the key obstacles to safe, bikeable streets in Denver. Drivers park in bike lanes all the time, and the people who are supposed to enforce the law do it too. This Denver Police Department bus was parked on top of the bike lane directly across the street from City Hall last Thursday. The symbolism […]

Today’s Headlines

By David Sachs | Apr 26, 2016 | 4 Comments

RTD Calls Small Fare Protests During Massive A-Line Celebration “Inappropriate” (CBS4) After Rush Hour, 9News Journalists Race to DIA Via Car, Train in Apparent Attempt to Prove Something Will Driver Face Charges for Killing Woman Walking in Boulder Crosswalk? (Daily Camera) Distracted Driving Is Dangerous (9News) … So Colorado DOT Created Really Sassy Signs to […]

DPW Syncs Signals on 16th Ave to Give Cyclists a “Green Wave”

By David Sachs | Apr 11, 2016 | 2 Comments

Denver Public Works just changed 16th Avenue’s traffic signals to align with biking speeds, so people on bikes will hit fewer red lights and drivers will travel at safer speeds. The bike-friendly traffic signals are in effect weekdays between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m, heading west into downtown. They stretch from Park Avenue West to Broadway, about one mile. This […]

Today’s Headlines

By David Sachs | Apr 6, 2016 | No Comments

Thornton Driver Injures 10-Year-Old Boy on Bike, Flees (DenPo) B-Cycle Adds Three Downtown Stations, Moves Existing One (DenPo) Restricting Red Light Cameras Isn’t Enough for Republicans Who Want to Limit Photo Radar Too (DenPo) Every Driver Using New Lanes On Wider C-470 Will Pay Toll (DBJ) Street Racers Speed Down I-25, Terrifying Drivers (ABC7) Westword Investigates “Clean Sweep” of Homeless […]

Sneckdown Redux: Blizzard Dumps Traffic-Calming on Denver Streets

By David Sachs | Mar 25, 2016 | 1 Comment

Just after the official start of spring and a 70-degree day, Colorado’s quirky weather handed Denver another snowstorm, and another chance to see how its streets can be redesigned. That’s right, it’s nature’s street design fix: The sneckdown. The term, if you’re not familiar, is a blend of “snowy neckdown.” (A neckdown widens sidewalks at street corners so drivers […]

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