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| DenverUrbanism Podcast Episode 3: Gold’s End Isn’t Golden |
| Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:01:42 +0000 |
| With two decades of support from willing taxpayers, RTD has built out an extraordinary network of light rail and commuter rail that connects suburban communities to Downtown Denver. The opening of each of these lines has been celebrated, written up in the media, and every day [...] |
| Denver’s Most Urban Census Tracts and Urban Neighborhoods |
| Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:08:56 +0000 |
| At my day job, I work in the Golden Triangle, which is a fast-changing place to live, work, and recreate. Recently, a group of colleagues and I had reason to talk about the direction in which the neighborhood is changing, and how we wanted to proactively engage the many, many new residents of the [...] |
| DenverUrbanism Podcast Episode 2: Should We Preserve Historic Preservation? |
| Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:23:44 +0000 |
| If you appreciate history, or just admire the built environment in your particular neighborhood of Denver, then you benefit from the city’s historic preservation process. Like all cities, the Denver of today is informed and shaped by the Denver that used to be. Last century's landfill [...] |
| East Colfax Avenue BRT and the Problems of Auto-Centric Land Use |
| Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:11:29 +0000 |
| A couple weeks back, while perusing new concept development plans, I noticed a Jack in the Box drive-thru restaurant proposed for 1801 E Colfax, the northeast corner of Williams and Colfax. That lot has sat vacant for years after a previous re-development effort fell through. I do not have [...] |
| Introducing: Our New DenverUrbanism Podcast! |
| Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:44:06 +0000 |
| Going to work, talking with friends, reading the news, you can feel the dynamism: Denver changes fast. Living here, we get to watch our city growing, certainly getting taller! Do you enjoy how 17th and 18th Streets don't look the way they did 5 years ago? [...] |
| Union Pacific’s “Big Boy” No. 4014 Rolls Into Town Over Labor Day |
| Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:16:45 +0000 |
| While this isn’t a typical post focusing on Denver’s urbanism, I’m sure we can all appreciate some train history rolling through Denver this past weekend. Union Pacific’s 1.2 million pound “Big Boy” No. 4014 made a stop just north of the 38th and Blake commuter rail station for all the train enthusiasts around Denver [...] |
| Bike to the Future—My New Year’s Wish for Bike Sharing in Denver |
| Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:42:48 +0000 |
| With the exit of B-Cycle from the bike-sharing community and a request for proposal to be sent out for a new vendor to replace it, it is time to look to the future when it comes to bikeshare. In the year 2020, what does a successful bike-sharing system look like? How should a preferred [...] |
| I Started Using B-Cycle’s Free 5280 Program—Here’s How It’s Going |
| Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:35:41 +0000 |
| Background Prior to January 2019, I used B-Cycle very sparingly. To me, it seemed like a primitive ancestor of Lime, Bird, and other ridesharing services that have popped up under the scooter pilot program. When the 5280 Program was announced, I applied and was able to get free B-Cycle rides for the year. After [...] |
| The Pedestrian Beg Button: Why is This Still a Thing? |
| Sat, 06 Jul 2019 14:02:05 +0000 |
| Ah, the joys of the pedestrian signal button. Joe the pedestrian approaches an intersection. The traffic light is red in his direction. Just has he approaches the crosswalk, the traffic light turns green. Oh, too late! Joe presses the button, but the red hand remains lit. Joe must wait for the traffic light to [...] |
| Tracking RTD’s Timeliness and Its Effects on the Typical Passenger |
| Tue, 14 May 2019 06:45:18 +0000 |
| It was a snowy January morning. I knew that all methods of transportation would be a mess and that my commute, if I decided to drive, would take well over two hours. So, I did what I always do. I bundled up, put some boots on, and started my quarter-mile hike through the snow [...] |
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