Protect Safe Streets Funding

In 2021, Denver doubled parking meter rates and created a Transportation & Mobility Special Revenue Fund to invest the incremental revenue—about $15 million annually—in pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and Vision Zero safety improvements. Instead of funding safer streets, the Johnston Administration has drifted from that purpose. Millions have been redirected to unrelated uses. In the city’s 2026 budget, $8.4 million, more than half the fund, is slated for a parking ticket appeals system.