Tag: Wade Blank
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Guardrails, income-restricted housing units on Denver City Council agenda
The Denver City Council will consider 29 resolutions on Monday, including a resolution approving a proposed grant agreement between the city and Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to upgrade the guardrails on Peña Boulevard from I-70 to Jackson Gap Street at Denver International Airport. The grant award is for $890,487 and for a term through…
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Efforts stirring to rename Civic Center Station after ‘Gang of 19’ activist Wade Blank
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Denver has come a long way since the summer of 1978, when wheelchair activists surrounded Regional Transportation District buses for two days, bringing traffic to a standstill and shining a national spotlight on the city’s then-inaccessible public transit system. Seven years after that protest, RTD became the first metropolitan region in the country to provide…