Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about walking

These are the changes that Denver residents want to see most. Chart: City and County of Denver

What Denverites Want: Less Traffic, Better Transit, More Affordability

By David Sachs | Dec 1, 2016 | No Comments

Denver residents want to live in a city with less traffic congestion, lower housing costs, and better transit options, according to a recently released survey.

Will Hancock Follow Through on Upgrades to the Speer-Leetsdale Corridor?

By David Sachs | Sep 26, 2016 | 28 Comments

There’s new evidence that Denver Public Works is slowly breaking down the bulwark of car-first planning, but that won’t guarantee better transit, walking, and biking anytime soon along Speer Boulevard and Leetsdale Drive. The department’s planners and consultants are working on a new transportation scheme for the Speer-Leetsdale corridor, branded “Go Speer-Leetsdale,” that puts transit, […]

WalkDenver: Hancock’s Budget “Reflects a Status Quo Mentality”

By David Sachs | Sep 22, 2016 | 5 Comments

Last week Streetsblog looked at Mayor Michael Hancock’s proposed 2017 budget and was not impressed. Despite the mayor’s stated commitment to ending traffic deaths, he’s not committing much in the way of actual resources to safe walking and biking. The pedestrian advocates at WalkDenver have been combing through the budget as well. In a newsletter published today, WalkDenver says that despite […]

Hancock’s Budget Fails to Deliver on His Vision Zero Promises

By David Sachs | Sep 13, 2016 | 5 Comments

“The truth about a city’s aspirations isn’t found in its vision,” says former Vancouver planning chief Brent Toderian. “It’s found in its budget.” With the release of Mayor Michael Hancock’s 2017 budget proposal, you can see the truth about his promise to eliminate traffic deaths — so far, it’s mostly hot air. In February, Hancock said […]

WalkDenver Audit Quantifies Difficulty of Walking on East Colfax

By David Sachs | Aug 29, 2016 | 2 Comments

A third of the people traveling along East Colfax Avenue and surrounding streets are walking, taking transit or biking, but that doesn’t mean the streets are well-designed for anything other than driving a car. Now, there’s data to prove it from a recent “walkability audit” by WalkDenver. The report quantifies what many people already know about the […]

Meet Denver’s First Full-Time Pedestrian Planner

By David Sachs | Aug 26, 2016 | 1 Comment

Mayor Michael Hancock made room in this year’s budget to hire Denver’s first full-time pedestrian planner, and Denver Public Works recently filled the post. His name is David Pulsipher. Pulsipher comes to the Mile High City from the Chicago Department of Transportation, where he headed up a program focusing on pedestrian infrastructure near Chicago’s 1,500 […]

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