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Since Mayor Michael Hancock committed to eliminating traffic deaths seven years ago, Denver’s roads have only gotten deadlier. As Mayor-elect Mike Johnston prepares to take the city’s reins, Denverites are asking for change. 

PRESS RELEASE — Thursday, July 13, 2023 MEDIA CONTACT Molly McKinley, Policy Director, the Denver Streets Partnership molly@denverstreetspartnership.org | 919-588-9676   DENVER — Ahead of the swearing-in of Mayor-Elect Johnson and the Denver City Council on Monday, July 17, the Denver Streets Partnership is releasing an agenda for their first 100 days in office. The […]

In the six full years since the city committed to Vision Zero, more than 400 people have died in traffic, and there’ve been more than 2,000 crashes causing serious injuries.

Wednesday the City recommitted to Vision Zero but Thursday critics and Cindy Stepp gathered on the corner where Ainslie was killed to say it isn’t enough.

Seven months after Denver voters approved a ballot measure to create a complete, crack-free network of sidewalks, officials from the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure have yet to begin implementation.

Shortages of bus drivers, train operators and some other key workers at the Regional Transportation District are just as large or worse than they were before a new union contract last year significantly raised wages, along with hopes for a turnaround.

Advocates for street safety, including Stepp, spoke at the site of Ainslie O’Neil’s death Thursday to pressure Denver’s current and future city leaders to do more.

As traffic fatalities in Denver continue to be a growing issue, the city announced Wednesday that it is recommitting to its 2017 Vision Zero plan that aims to eliminate traffic deaths by 2030.

Mayor Michael Hancock is recommitting to its “Vision Zero” program that reframes serious and fatal crashes as systemic problems that need infrastructure or engineering fixes. His administration on Wednesday released an updated plan that he hopes will get the city back on track.

The city and county of Denver has built 137 miles of new bike infrastructure in the last five years. That surpasses the goal of 125 miles Hancock set in 2018.

RTD has suspended train service at this and three other stations until Friday morning as crews replace overhead power lines.

PRESS RELEASE — Tuesday, May 23, 2023 MEDIA CONTACT Molly McKinley, Policy Director, the Denver Streets Partnership molly@denverstreetspartnership.org | 919-588-9676   DENVER — Advocates at the Denver Streets Partnership are disappointed that RTD cannot provide bus shuttles this week during scheduled service disruptions due to maintenance on the D, H, and L Lines. “People in […]

Broadway is not known as Denver’s most pedestrian- or cyclist-friendly street. But on Sunday, the typical sound of traffic was gone.

When Denverite talked with more than 100 people across the city last summer about what mattered to them, transportation ranked sixth. In the mayoral race, housing, homelessness, affordability and public safety have eclipsed most other issues.

As Evans Avenue traffic roared just feet away, city workers on Tuesday changed out the first of about 2,000 signs marking the new speed limit on Denver’s neighborhood streets: 20 mph.

Denver has myriad plans that envision a future where our city has complete, connected transit; sidewalk and bike networks; and development patterns that make it easy and practical for people to choose options other than driving to daily destinations.

Denver boasts one of the country’s fastest growing economies and expects to add tens of thousands of new residents by the end of the decade. The city’s rapid and continued expansion comes at a cost, though. 

Not every day do the Denver Republican Party and the Denver Democratic Socialists of America find themselves on the same side of an electoral fight. But that’s what the debate over Referred Question 2O, that would allow Westside Investment Partners to turn the former Park Hill Golf Course site into a mixed-use development with affordable and market-rate housing, retail and park space, has led to.

Federal Boulevard has seen multiple hit-and-run crashes in recent days. A reward is being offered. On Feb. 22, a pedestrian was hit crossing South Federal Boulevard at West Dartmouth Avenue. The injuries are considered serious. Denver Police say the driver left the scene.

Denver and Vision Zero, the city’s initiative to completely eradicate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030, is receiving some funding to help further the mission.