Denver voters strongly support the city’s efforts to give more street space to people in response to the COVID-19 pandemic through initiatives including shared and open streets that the City unveiled in 2020. Voters also remain enthusiastic about making the transportation system safer and more accessible through a rapid expansion of its bicycle network, according to new survey results
“There’s not a lot that the city has publicly committed to in terms of thinking differently post-pandemic,” Denver Streets Partnership executive director Jill Locantore told Colorado Politics.
“As somebody who walks on this street every single day, I feel so much safer now,” Jill Locantore told Fox31. “People can’t plow through the intersection at high speeds. They have to slow down.”
“There was some talk about, ‘should we close the parks?’ And that just seemed like the absolute wrong response,” says Jill Locantore, executive director of the Denver Streets Partnership,
Denver Streets Partnership Advocacy Academy participants shared the importance of shared streets and why they should stay permanently.
COLORADO POLITICS - When COVID-19 first hit, Denver residents flocked to city parks in droves to escape cabin fever from the new stay-at-home orders. For Jill Locantore, executive director of Denver Streets Partnership, this pandemic experiment represents the future...
Denver Streets Partnership and the city’s Department of Transportation & Infrastructure will host a “Streets for People Summit” from Sept. 16-19, with discussion oriented around creating safer streets, reducing car dependency and combating climate change. [button...