A Denver city councilmember who supports defunding police weighs new success of replacing cops with mental health teams. Six months in, the team has responded to almost 750 calls, without one arrest.
HB 1191 frees cities and towns from the archaic 85th percentile rule. Instead, they can change speed limits because they believe it would reduce crashes or make walking and biking safer.
Last week, City Hall’s Denveright transit initiative unveiled the preliminary map for a high-frequency transit network, a grid of service that arrives at least every 15 minutes.
Homes that would be getting built are not getting built — and given the current uncertainty they may never get built. For a city facing a housing shortage, this is bad news.
What if, instead of light rail cars clanging alongside downtown traffic, Denver’s trains burrowed underground? Or if Denver had a network of tracks elevated on stilts throughout the city that…
Denver’s streets are changing. City planners are converting one-way speedways into two-way neighborhood streets, prioritizing transit with more dedicated bus lanes, and installing more protec…