Denver Streets Partnership Archives

Denver celebrates completion of Broadway protected bike lane with community ride

Apr 4, 2024

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In celebration of the Broadway bike lane project’s completion, the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) will host a community bike ride along a 1.5 mile stretch of the protected bike lane on Saturday. The ride will begin at 7th Avenue and Logan Street and travel down the bike lane as a large group.…

Downtown Denver Partnership cancels 2024’s ¡Viva! Streets

Jan 11, 2024

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Noah Festenstein

The Downtown Denver Partnership on Thursday announced ¡Viva! Streets Denver, an annual business promotion event encouraging non-motorized modes of transportation, is canceled for 2024. The Denver Streets Partnership is calling for Mayor Mike Johnston and the Downtown Denver Partnership to “establish a reasonable permitting process,” to allow the event to go on this year, a…

Denver residents seek renewed focus on ending traffic deaths: ‘Lives are at stake’

Jul 14, 2023

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denver-gazette

Since Mayor Michael Hancock committed to eliminating traffic deaths seven years ago, Denver’s roads have only gotten deadlier. As Mayor-elect Mike Johnston prepares to take the city’s reins, Denverites are asking for change. More than 100 Denver residents squeezed into a packed rec room on Thursday evening for the chance to tell Johnston how he…

Police look to build positive relationships in Denver’s Westwood, a neighborhood that has a complicated history with policing

Aug 22, 2021

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Julia Cardi

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Driving on the main commercial corridors through Westwood reveals a lot about the southwest Denver neighborhood. On Federal Boulevard, check-cashing businesses, auto shops, taquerias and pho restaurants meld into the Little Saigon Business District, where the stone and red-painted archway of the Far East Center…

Denver ending temporary Shared Streets program, considering permanent options

Aug 5, 2021

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Hannah Metzger hannah.metzger@gazette.com

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver is set to end its temporary Shared Streets program this month as the city begins a lengthy process for considering permanent alternatives, the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure said Thursday. The program was launched…

Some of Denver’s car-banning COVID-19 experiments could become permanent in city parks and roads

Oct 9, 2020

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