Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about walking

A pedestrian crosses 15th Street in Downtown Denver as a vehicle slows before turning around a newly-installed corner wedge safety treatment. Photo: Andy Bosselman

Video: New 15th Street ‘Corner Wedges’ Slow Drivers When They Turn Onto Bike Lane

By Andy Bosselman | Oct 17, 2019 | No Comments

The Department of Public works installed rubber curbs and plastic posts to create “corner wedges” within five intersections on the 15th Street bikeway downtown earlier this month. The pilot project aims to slow drivers as they turn left at intersections, helping to ensure they yield to bicyclists and pedestrians.

San Francisco Banned Cars From Iconic Market Street

By Roger Rudick | Oct 16, 2019 | No Comments

After eight years of planning — and more years of advocacy and pushing — San Francisco approved the "Better Market Street" plan. It will ban private cars on Market Street, add raised, protected bike lanes and make San Francisco's iconic street a more comfortable place to walk and bike.

Report: Drivers Inhale More Pollution than Cyclists

By Aaron Short | Oct 8, 2019 | No Comments

Poetic justice: People who drive end up being exposed to more pollution from their cars than people who ride bikes or walk, a new report found.

Bella Rivera holds the hand of her mother Esther on her their way to school. "My daughter knows you need to hold onto me. Drivers don't care." Photo: Andy Bosselman

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Eyes on the Street: Denver Must Do More to Protect Kids at Montbello Kindergarten

By Andy Bosselman | Oct 2, 2019 | No Comments

A city council member used the annual Walk to School Day photo op to demand that the city do more to protect kids when the best it could do was install a crosswalk 20 months after a child was hit in front of the Escalante-Biggs Academy in Montbello.

A new electricity rate will significantly lower the Free MallRide’s cost per mile. File photo from April 14 by Andy Bosselman

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Open Thread: Where in Denver Do You Want a Pedestrian Mall?

By Andy Bosselman | Oct 1, 2019 | 9 Comments

Where would you like to see a few blocks dedicated to pedestrianism, where "urban strollways" and bikeways could exist without without the threat of car crashes or noise and air pollution?

Architects Jonathon Smith and Laura Rodriguez came from New York City to compete in the Park(ing) Day competition.

A Photo Tour of Denver Park(ing) Day Parklet Installations

By Andy Bosselman | Sep 23, 2019 | 1 Comment

Livable streets advocates, designers and city employees temporarily transformed curbside parking spaces into mini-parks on Friday.

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