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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.
Loving Little Saigon
We work with communities all over Denver but one especially close to our heart is the Little Saigon district on South Federal. This diverse corridor is packed full of restaurants and businesses, often owned and operated by several generations of the same family....
Transportation is the key to a sustainable, equitable, and healthy Denver.
In early July, Denver’s Climate Action Task Force released recommendations on policies, strategies, and funding sources to achieve zero emissions by 2040. The report culminates a five-month process of research and community engagement. Two members of the Denver...
Help Reimagine Transit in Denver
Transit is in trouble, across the U.S. and in Denver. During the COVID-19 pandemic, fare box revenues and dedicated taxes have plummeted, while transit agencies have had to shoulder new expenses associated with keeping riders and drivers safe, which in turn...
Lots to love in the Community Transportation Networks proposed designs
The City is currently seeking input on proposed street design changes that are part of the Community Transportation Networks initiative. Here are just a few of the proposed designs that we are particularly excited about, and hope that you will support too.
Join the Twenty is Plenty Campaign!
The evidence is clear: speed kills. Twenty miles per hour is plenty fast for neighborhood streets, contrasted with the City’s current default of 25 mph. People should be able to safely walk dogs, play with kids in their front yard, garden in the planting strip, walk to get groceries, or bike with their kids to school on neighborhood streets. You can join the Twenty is Plenty campaign by ordering a yard sign delivered for FREE to your home. We’ve got two great designs you can choose from!
Nervous about bike commuting? Neighborhood Navigators are here to help!
Over the last few months, Denverites have seen the benefits of fewer cars on the road: cleaner air; quieter streets; and more room to walk, bike, and roll. Demand for bicycles was so high that Denver bike shops actually experienced a shortage of inventory as more...
We commit to action on anti-racism
"Streets are for the People" is no longer just a catchphrase. It is not even just a statement anymore. It is a challenge, a call to action - and it isn't coming from us. Even when space is described as public and is designed for people, Black people claiming this...