Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Denver

It’s ON! Parking Madness 2014 Kicks Off With Chicago vs. Denver

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 19, 2014 | 50 Comments

Are you ready for Parking Madness 2014, our second annual search for parking craters that have obliterated cities? You better be. Last year, Tulsa took home the Golden Crater. In this year’s tournament, we broadened the field to accept entries from outside the United States. Perhaps not surprisingly, American parking craters still dominated the reader […]

Green Lane Project Picks Six New Cities to Make Big Progress on Bikeways

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 10, 2014 | No Comments

More than 100 cities applied for the second round of the Green Lane Project, the program that helps cities build better bike infrastructure, including protected lanes. People for Bikes, which runs the program, announced its selections for round two today: Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. “The selected cities have ambitious goals and a vision for […]

Charlotte and Denver Join Urban Innovators at NACTO

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 28, 2013 | No Comments

The group that brought you the Urban Bikeway Design Guide and the Urban Street Design Guide is expanding. The National Association of City Transportation Officials added Charlotte and Denver to its list of member cities this week, bringing the total to 18. In addition, NACTO has added Louisville, Kentucky, and Somerville, Massachusetts, to the list of 12 […]

How Denver Repaired Its Epic Parking Crater

By Angie Schmitt | May 13, 2013 | 3 Comments

The above photo is downtown Denver in 1976. Not pretty is it? But Denver doesn’t look like that anymore. And that’s no accident. Even though that picture is what inspired Streetsblog’s Parking Madness competition, Denver didn’t even make it past the first round in our hunt for the worst parking crater in an American downtown. This is what […]

Parking Madness: Atlanta vs Denver

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 27, 2013 | 7 Comments

In the race to the bottom that is Parking Madness, Streetsblog’s Sweet 16-style tournament of terrible downtown parking craters, 10 cities have faced off so far. But there are more, so many more awful parking wastelands in otherwise proud American cities. In this post, the match up is Atlanta versus Denver. Remember to cast your […]

Seeking Submissions: The Worst Parking Crater in an American Downtown

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 5, 2013 | 29 Comments

Alright, Streetsblog readers. Send us your best shots. After running our “worst intersection in America” photo contest, we heard from readers who want to see “more public shaming” of terrible transportation and planning blunders around the country. We aim to please. So here is the next contest: Where is the worst sea of downtown surface parking in […]

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