Colorado
Calculator Shows How Many Cars Will Come To Your Town’s New Highway
A Colorado nonprofit has developed a calculator to help residents quantify how adding highway miles in their state will translate to more cars on the road, and they’re hoping advocates in other states will follow suit.
April 28, 2021
SORRIEST BUS STOPS 2021: Pittsburgh vs. Littleton
Life is a highway — but if you're trying to catch the bus on the side of one of these high-speed roads, you could end up dead.
March 22, 2021
States Aren’t Even Trying to Reduce Traffic Deaths
Most states are aiming for more traffic deaths under a new federal program requiring them to set targets.
June 13, 2019
Best Bike Friendly Cities? Look to the Northwest
If you want to live and bike safely in a city head to the Northwest. And definitely get out of Tucson.
May 6, 2019
Aspen Experiments With Paying People Not to Drive Downtown
Drivers who shift to transit, biking or carpooling will earn points that can be cashed out at local businesses.
August 27, 2018
A New Way to Rank America’s Best Cities for Bicycling
The PeopleForBikes rating system reveals some unexpected new stars. But no American city has bicycling figured out yet.
May 3, 2018
Fort Collins Just Built Five Miles of Bikeway for Less Than $1 Million – Here’s the Trick
The Colorado city is the latest to embrace America's most underrated type of bike facility.
September 20, 2017
Highway Boondoggles: Widening I-70 in Denver
In a new report, Highway Boondoggles 2 (the original came out in 2014), U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group teamed up to profile the most wasteful highway projects that state DOTs are building. Streetsblog will be serializing the case studies in the report. Today, we look at the widening of I-70 in Denver, a project with a potentially high social and economic cost.
January 25, 2016
What the Results of 8 Governors’ Races Mean for Cities and Transit
Yesterday's elections returned some of the nation's most anti-urban, anti-transit governors to power in races where they were supposed to be vulnerable. Pro-transit candidates were unexpectedly routed in some states, though a few did manage to hang on.
November 5, 2014
How Colorado DOT’s Dubious Traffic Projections Could Soak the Public
A recent report by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future,” examines 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does no good.
September 29, 2014