Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Colorado

In Colorado, a Big Legal Victory for Active Transportation Funding

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 25, 2013 | 3 Comments

Believe it or not, in many U.S. states one of the biggest obstacles to active transportation is in the constitution. Embedded in the constitutions of 22 U.S. states are bans on spending gas tax revenues and/or vehicle registration fees on anything but highways and bridges. That means no matter how much practical value a sidewalk, busway, […]

Transport U: CU-Boulder Catches the Bus to Savings

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 24, 2013 | 6 Comments

This is the fourth installment in Streetsblog’s series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ, part two profiled Stanford, and part three looked at MIT. Sustainability is part of the ethos in Boulder, where there’s a joke that there are more bikes than people. And the University of […]

Meet the Rural Region That Opted for VelociBuses Over Highway Expansion

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 14, 2013 | 5 Comments

The four sparsely populated mountain counties make up the Roaring Fork Valley extend over roughly 50 miles on Colorado’s Western Slope. About 32,000 people are interspersed throughout the valley in small towns like Basalt, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs, but the local economy revolves around the nearby resort town of Aspen. This, clearly, is challenging terrain […]

Colorado Supreme Court Strikes Down Black Hawk Bike Ban

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 4, 2013 | 4 Comments

Cycling advocates won an important victory today in the Colorado Supreme Court, where justices struck down the notorious bike ban in the town of Black Hawk. This casino town of just 118 banned cycling altogether in 2010 out of supposed concerns about “safety.” Three cyclists who were ticketed for violating the ban — Jamie Webb, Jeff […]