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Meet Emily Kleinfelter, DSP Program Associate
Meet Emily Kleinfelter, newest member of the DSP team!
What’s Next for Our Streets: Looking Ahead with DOT Leaders
National politics can limit or expand the ambition and scope of what’s possible on streets. Local transportation agencies must abide by federal rules to fund, develop, and construct new projects, and must allocate federal funding among infrastructure for cars, public...
Supporting local businesses with outdoor seating
When you need something juicy, something to spice up the menu of life, it’s time you considered our work supporting small businesses and local main streets across Denver. We’ve been busy.
Transit is the Future: Denver Transit Justice Forum
In partnership with Mile High Connects, the Denver Streets Partnership is excited to invite you on Wednesday, December 2 for “Transit is the Future: Denver Transit Justice Forum.”
The East Area Plan is great – with one exception.
Read our analysis of the East Area Plan’s most recent updates and how you can support healthy communities across Denver.
Residents Support Lane Closures on Federal
We’ve long advocated for increased safety on Federal Boulevard, and are thankful that DPD and DOTI have installed temporary traffic calming. Read the story to hear from Athmar Park residents about the community’s response.
Less than a week to go – let’s Get Out The Vote!
You’ve heard this 100 times by now but we’re piling on: VOTE, and vote YES on Denver Prop 2A!
Get a free boost to your urban biking skills.
We’re encouraging more people to pick up their bikes for trips to the grocery store, work, and other destinations!
Make East Yale Avenue safer and better for everyone.
Local resident Emily Holben-Walker shares the importance of improving East Yale Avenue and how you can do that.
Vote YES on 2A – invest in our transportation system to fight climate change!
Denver can’t wait. We must address climate change now. Vote YES on 2A.
Join the DSP team as a Program Associate!
We’re hiring a full-time organizer to support grassroots campaign we’re working on this fall, including the climate change ballot initiative, promoting public engagement opportunities offered by the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, 20 is Plenty, promoting the Neighborhood Navigator program, and more!
Denver: Stranded by Transit Cuts
Transit leaders at RTD and across the country have warned that service cuts of 40% may persist for years to come without federal funding.
Want to improve biking in Denver? Start with a light.
With the city’s push to add 125 miles of bikeways to the cycling network through the Community Transportation Network planning process, we have a pressing need to understand how everyday cyclists are using the streets. The Downtown Denver Partnership -- in partnership...
Don’t miss Cam Hardy from the Cincinnati Better Bus Coalition at the 2020 Denver Streets for People Summit
The role of public transit is to serve everyone. Transit and transportation equity has played a prominent role in Denver’s history, from the legacy of the pre-WWII streetcar system to the 1975 “Gang of 19” protest to voter approval of the FasTracks rail expansion...
Love Denver’s shared and open streets? Help us keep them!
DOTI recently announced that people-friendly streets are sticking around until the end of the fall. That’s great, but we think they should be permanent. Read on for three ways you can make it happen.
Denver’s next fire chief must embrace Vision Zero
Street design plays a central role in ensuring the safety of all road users. Denver’s next fire chief must embrace Vision Zero.
Defining Safe Streets for 2020 and Beyond – A Global, Virtual Discussion
In 2020, as we face an unprecedented public health crisis with COVID-19, residents across Denver and worldwide are finding it more important now than ever to have safe and ample spaces to be physically active. Denver's Shared & Open streets have helped but there...
Announcing the DSP Advocacy Academy
If you believe in an equitable and vibrant Denver that guarantees our public spaces are designed for people ensuring everyone can walk, bike, roll and ride transit to where they want to go – we need you! The Denver Streets Partnership is launching a 10-week certificate program to give you the tools, expertise, experience, and connections to be a transit, walking, rolling, and biking leader into the future.
Designing our Streets for People
A key factor holding our city back from achieving these goals are outdated street design guidelines that prioritize the movement of cars over the health and wellbeing of people. That’s about to change.