March 30, 2020 -- For this month’s People Behind the Progress, we’re talking with Jill Locantore, the Executive Director of the Denver Streets Partnership and a leader in Denver’s Vision Zero movement. In our conversation we’ll talk about the work of the Denver...
April 7, 2020 -- Federal Boulevard, a state highway that doubles as an urban street, is one of Denver’s deadliest to travel. City and state transportation planners say a median down the center of the road’s southern segment will make it safer for pedestrians and...
Denver - A survey of 500 Denver voters found that four in five people support the city’s plan to add 125 miles of bicycle lanes by 2024, with majorities even agreeing that bike infrastructure should come at the expense of parking and travel lanes. "Increasing mobility...
Incomplete streets are anti-love. Join us in telling City leaders: adopt street design standards that put people first!
Join religious leaders of every faith November 10-17th to commemorate World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Sadly, the epidemic of traffic crashes is one that unites us all. People of every faith, neighborhood, race, class, gender, age, ability and...
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...
Eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries requires a fundamental shift in how we think about, design, and manage our transportation system. The Denver Streets Partnership developed a set of core principles that outlines what this change in systems thinking...
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...
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...
Adopted by the United Nations in 2005, World Day of Remembrance is an international day of reflection honoring victims of traffic crashes and their families. It takes place on the third Sunday in November every year. Locally, The Denver Streets Partnership (DSP) is...
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...
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...
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...
In 2017, 11 people died in crashes along Federal, including 7 pedestrians. The rate of fatalities on Federal was 20 times higher than the urban rate on Colorado roadways. To expedite safety improvements, the City and County of Denver is coordinating closely with...
In 2017, the City & County of Denver released the Denver Vision Zero Action Plan, setting the City on a clear path to achieve zero traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030. To learn more, visit the City's Vision Zero web page. [button...
To realize the Denveright vision for complete, multimodal transportation networks and achieve specific targets laid out in the plans including zero traffic fatalities and 50% single occupancy vehicle (SOV) mode share, the City must make a substantial investment in...
