May 8, 2020 - Across the world, the coronavirus pandemic is offering city planners a rare opportunity to rethink urban transportation to both accommodate social distancing and be more eco-friendly. Bicycle advocates are jumping at the chance to push for expanded...
May 13, 2020 - In early April, Denver closed four streets in order to give people more space for walking, cycling, and enjoying the outdoors during these difficult times. In total, 26.1 miles of roadway were made mixed-use in response to the pandemic. Good data...
April 24, 2020 - More than a thousand Denver residents desire more space for outdoor activities while having to maintain physical distancing, a new Denver Streets Partnership survey found. After polling more than 1,400 city residents, Denver Streets Partnership, a...
April 24, 2020 - Tired: Motorists owning Denver streets. Wired: Sharing the public assets — even just a little — with others. That’s how the Denver Streets Partnership, an advocacy group for sustainable transportation modes like walking, biking and public transit,...
April 24, 2020 - Denver residents are taking to the streets for fresh air and recreation during the stay-at-home order. Among the first cities in the country to open streets to pedestrians to slow the spread of COVID-19, Denver now has 15.9 miles of newly designated...
April 7, 2020 -- They have become Denver’s three grand walkways — unexpected auto-free zones born rather suddenly of the war against an enemy that has infected nearly 850 people in the city and felled 15 since the novel coronavirus was first detected in Colorado just...
April 3, 2020 -- Parts of Denver are about to go back to the days when people congregated and played in the streets before cars dominated them. Except… no congregating and no playing. The city government will close segments of East 11th Avenue, Byron Place, Stuart...
An important step toward realizing the vision and goals embodied in Blueprint Denver is the development of more detailed plans through Denver’s neighborhood planning initiative. Recently the City released the latest draft neighborhood plan for the East Central area....
Incomplete streets are anti-love. Join us in telling City leaders: adopt street design standards that put people first!
On May 6, 2019, the Denver Streets Partnership submitted recommendations to Mayor Hancock for the 2020 city budget. Here is a summary of the requested vs. allocated funding for key areas related to creating people friendly streets, where walking, biking, and transit...
Mayor Hancock’s Mobility Action Plan establishes the ambitious goals of reducing the proportion of people who drive alone to work from 73% to 50% and eliminating traffic fatalities by the year 2030. The Denver Streets Partnership (DSP) strongly supports these goals....
The City and County of Denver Public Works is working to identify, design, and develop pilot streetscape improvements for the Santa Fe Corridor between 8th Avenue and West Colfax Avenue. Santa Fe Drive is an important corridor within the Denver transportation network....
The Hampden Avenue corridor is a critical east-west arterial near the southern limits of the City and County of Denver serving residents, visitors, shoppers, and employers. The vision for Hampden Avenue is to increase corridor connectivity and provide multimodal...
The City and County of Denver's Speer/Leetsdale Mobility Study examined transportation connectivity and operational needs for travel modes within the Speer/Leetsdale Corridor — a prominent travel route for Denver residents and one piece of the larger travel movement...
The Washington Street Study Report identifies a vision for Washington Street as a mixed-use riverfront destination area that capitalizes on its adjacency to the South Platte River, a revitalized Washington Street, reinvented greenspace, and direct connections across...
In 2017, Denver voters approved funds through the Elevate Denver Bond Program to be used to make pedestrian crossing improvements to West Colfax, as well as improving the efficiency and reliability of transit along the corridor. [button...
Denver Moves: Pedestrians and Trails is a citywide plan for completing and improving sidewalks, street crossings and trails – the most essential elements of our transportation network. It also includes recommendations for enhancing our recreational trail network,...
Blueprint Denver, first adopted in 2002 and updated in 2019, is the City's land use and transportation plan for growing an inclusive and authentic city. The plan is about: Creating complete neighborhoods and complete networks everywhere in our city, to meet the needs...
Via the city’s three-year Denveright outreach and planning effort, input from thousands of Denverites resulted in plans for a more inclusive, connected and healthy city, for all who live here today, as well as neighbors of tomorrow. The first plan drafts were...
On April 4, 2019, the Denver Streets Partnership challenged three teams of municipal election candidates to work together to find the best route through Denver’s transportation system from three of the city’s less-connected corners to the Alliance Center downtown -...