CU Denver graduate students to DOTI and CDOT: Here’s how to improve bus stops along 14 bus routes

Each fall semester for the last six years, the Denver Streets Partnership (and formerly WalkDenver) has worked on a research project with the Urban and Regional Planning graduate program at the University of Colorado Denver.

Whether it’s collecting information on missing sidewalks or subpar transit stops, the students’ work has been critical to fill data gaps and support our advocacy and policy work. Their research adds to what we know about the challenges people face while walking, biking, and rolling on Denver streets. Previous CU Denver research topics included every transit stop on Federal Boulevard, walkability in Montbello, what makes West Colfax so wicked for pedestrians, and more.

Last semester, the students assessed bus stops along 14 central bus routes in Denver. They recommended ways to improve bus stops and increase connections with micromobility options like bikes and scooters. One student, Rey Sosa, also works as a Safe Routes Ambassador for the Denver Community Active Living Coalition (CALC), and he wrote a summary of the project. Visit the Denver CALC blog to read the students’ recommendations and check out their final reports on bus stops along 14 bus routes.