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Mayor Hancock’s Sheridan Blvd Plan: Feel Good, Do Nothing

By David Sachs | | 3 Comments
Anyone who’s walked down Sheridan Boulevard knows it’s a dangerous street where dirt mounds replace sidewalks, drivers ignore the 35 mph speed limit, and crossing the street means dodging five lanes of traffic. It’s a nightmare for pedestrians and the Colorado Department of Transportation knows it. But that’s not stopping them from widening lanes nearby. Between 2010 […]

Why Denver Needs to Get Serious About Street Safety and Adopt Vision Zero

By David Sachs | | 9 Comments
Traffic deaths are not an inevitable fixture of modern life, but preventable tragedies that can be systematically eliminated by smart public policy. That’s the thinking behind Vision Zero, an increasingly influential approach to street safety in cities around the world. Now is the ideal time for Denver’s leaders to join in. Vision Zero has its origins in Sweden, where […]