Tag: Dennis Royer
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Vision Zero: As Denver doubles down, fatalities keep climbing
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A decade ago, Denver became one of many U.S. cities to adopt a bold, new model of traffic safety — one that envisioned an end to the hundreds of serious injuries and dozens of fatalities that plague the streets each year. Fast forward to today, and Denver streets and intersections show a widening array of…
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Former chief traffic engineer says DOTI was right to scale back Alameda ‘road diet’ plan
Was the city right to back off on its plan to narrow Denver’s busy East Alameda Avenue from four lanes of traffic to just two lanes — settling instead on a plan that eliminates a single lane and leaves two eastbound traffic lanes intact? Absolutely, said former Denver Chief Traffic Engineer Dennis Royer. Royer, who…
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Colorado Interstate 70 project keeps driving forward despite opposition from neighborhood
The Central 70 Project, a $1.2 billion undertaking that has left the north Denver neighborhoods of Globeville/Elyria-Swansea in a state of constant noise and construction for four years, has been contentious from its beginning. In 2008, the Interstate 70 viaduct was declared structurally deficient and functionally obsolete; but it was nearly three decades earlier when…