Wednesday: Join the Ride and Walk of Silence to Remember Victims of Traffic Violence
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The location of the ceremony is significant. It's a stone's throw from Federal Boulevard, Denver's deadliest street.
Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about walking
Eyes on the Street: Signs of Bikeway Life on Brighton Boulevard
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If you're like me, you've avoided Brighton Boulevard like the plague. It's not an easily navigable place while construction crews dig up the road to create a human-scaled street with raised bikeways and -- blessings up -- sidewalks.
CDOT Preaches Imagined Public Safety Crisis of “Distract Walking” on Denver Street Corners
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Every so often the Colorado Department of Transportation decides it's time to use public money to shame people walking in the name of street safety.
Eyes on the Street: 19th and 20th Avenues Go Two-Way — Plus Protected Bike Lanes Uptown
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Denver Public Works repurposes a car lane for people on bikes. Grant and Logan streets will go two-way later this spring.
Denver Can’t Rely on State Lawmakers to Fund Transportation the City Needs
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It's clear from the debate at the capitol that any legislative package of transportation funding will be more about pleasing constituencies who live a stone's throw from Utah, Oklahoma, and Kansas than about solving the unique problems of an urban, growing city.
Denver Public Works Will Re-Time Downtown Signals to Prioritize Pedestrians
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Over the next year, the city's streets department will overhaul traffic signals downtown to ensure people walking have enough time to cross the streets.