In the third installment of 303 Magazine’s series on Denver’s sustainability efforts, Denver Streets Partnership steering committee member Naomi Amaha talks about connecting the city without cars.
Colfax Walk Audits
Colfax should be a walker’s paradise. It is lined with some of Denver’s most beloved shops, restaurants, cafes, bars, and concert venues. Its status as the busiest bus corridor in the city means it is usually teeming with pedestrians. But Colfax can be an unpleasant...
Peoria Street Multimodal Improvements Stakeholder Group
Montbello residents deserve quality transportation options. We’re advocating for that on the Peoria Street Multimodal Improvements Stakeholder Group.
Montbello FreshLo Walking Loop
The FreshLo walking loop is a healthy living loop that connects community gardens and parks, schools, and the Montbello Cultural Hub with improved sidewalks, and street crossings, and bike lanes.
Assessing Walkability in Montbello
CU Denver graduate students tackle walkability issues in northeast Denver For years, we have partnered with urban planning graduate students at the University of Colorado Denver to perform walkability assessments of various Denver neighborhoods. In 2017, students were...
Does affordable housing end at the sidewalk? A west Denver project is figuring that out.
DENVERITE - A west Denver community group has been navigating the challenges of building granny flats, add-ons to homes that add density and an additional housing option. Once construction was completed earlier this year, an inspector from the Department of...
We had every single bus stop on Federal Boulevard assessed – here are the results
Many bus stops in the city lack even the most basic amenities such as seating, protection from the elements, and lighting. We recommend adding these amenities as short-term improvements that would enhance safety, comfort, and convenience for riders along RTD’s second-busiest corridor. On a long-term scale, we recommend much more substantial improvements to Federal’s roadway design and streetscape.
Reimagine West Colfax
Reimagining West Colfax: From Demonstration to Long-Term Changes Report offers recommendations for making West Colfax better for people on foot and on bike. The Reimagine West Colfax Celebration was tremendously successful in demonstrating street design elements that...
Barnum Weir Gulch Trail Wayfinding
The Weir Gulch Trail in Barnum gets playful upgrade In May 2017, WalkDenver and the Denver Community Active Living Coalition (CALC) installed a fun new wayfinding art project in the Barnum neighborhood. Last June, the neighborhoods of Athmar Park, Barnum, and...
Report: It’s Time to Fix Federal
Federal Boulevard has: The 2nd highest bus ridership in the RTD system 26% of Denver residents in adjacent neighborhoods BUT: 45% of sidewalks have no buffer from fast-moving traffic 47% of sidewalk segments have a low-quality pedestrian rating Between 2012 &...
Denver Restaurants Send Urgent Plea to Mayor: Give Us Outdoor Seating
May 8, 2020 - A group of restaurant industry professionals and representatives have gotten together to send Mayor Michael Hancock a message: We'll need more outdoor seating in order to survive. The group, which includes the directors of business improvement districts...
DSP Comments on the East Area Plan
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 Area. We’ve...
Tens of thousands of people are walking, biking and rolling on Denver streets once dominated by cars. Will they stick around?
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,...
Activists Want More Open Streets in Denver Even After COVID-19 Ends
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...
Denver’s closed streets bring out people eager to break coronavirus quarantine and stretch their legs
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...
Some Denver streets will close to cars, giving people who walk and bike more elbow room during the coronavirus pandemic
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...
Denver Streets Partnership Calls for Closing Speer, Other Denver Streets to Cars
On March 23, when Denver Mayor Michael Hancock issued a stay-at-home order that went into effect at 5 p.m. March 24 to address the COVID-19 outbreak, he specifically mentioned people spotted the previous two days at crowded public places such as City Park and...
DSP Guiding Principles for Colfax BRT
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) on East Colfax is projected to lead to a dramatic shift in how people move along the corridor, with twice as many people riding the bus each day (50,000) compared to driving (25,000) by the year 2030. The East Colfax BRT project is therefore an...
Letter to Mayor Hancock Re: Transportation Funding
On August 2, 2019, the Denver Streets Partnership wrote a letter to Mayor Hancock saying Denver needs at least $120 million per year from new funding sources to build out complete sidewalk, bicycle and transit networks within 20 years rather than hundreds of years. We...
Get on the Bus: It’s Time to Make Denver’s Transit Better
The following opinion piece by Jill Locantore was originally published in Colorado Politics on July 26, 2019. To address many of the challenges resulting from Denver’s booming growth, City leaders should immediately improve the bus system. It’s not surprising that...