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Denver's Changing Neighborhoods - Living Streets Initiative

posted Thursday, July 9, 2009 2:42pm

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These all-new Rocky Mountain PBS short videos address the Denver Living Streets Initiative, an urban planning model that is helping to create a new wave of thriving neighborhoods in Denver.

A Living Street is a vital community place that supports mobility, human interaction, active lifestyles and prosperity through the thoughtful development of urban land near transit. The focus is on green living, community health, local economic growth, greater transportation choice and improved accessibility and connectivity for all users of the street (bikes, pedestrians and cars alike). For more information, visit denverlivingstreets.org/

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Richard
Monday, October 19, 2009 › 11:09am
Denver's rezoning shows that what most citizens want is to keep their neighborhoods unchanged and to restrict density to areas immediate to light rail stations. Hence, the citywide downzoning to single unit dominance and the imposition of duplex ghettos in areas where the zoning is currently R-3. Neighborhoods where single-unit chauvinists resist duplexes and ADUs, even though these forms have successfully integrated with single family homes for years, are deluding themselves that their plan is sustainable. It's not. Reducing Vehicle Miles is sustainable and that's everyone's job, not just the job of those whom the NIMBYS force to carry the load.

dave
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 › 7:14pm
I am tired of the one-way streets that focus only on the convenience and needs of people in cars. My neighborhood, Capital Hill is ruined by 13th Street. I hope Denver widens the sideswalks and makes it a two-way street.

Barb
Saturday, November 14, 2009 › 9:23pm
I live on So. University Blvd because it is close to the light rail. The Univ. Blvd buses run every half hour M-S and once an hour on Sun. You have to plan your carless trips, as long as you realize that sometimes the buses can be late. I am surprised that not many people use the rubber tire buses - must be a class thing. They are always clean and the drivers are good. I've been 100% reliant on buses/rail for seven years. As a native of Denver, I still find people are still too in love with their cars and the sprawl this city/metroplex suffers from, makes it extremely difficult to go carless. The bike idea sounds great, but at my age and with my bad knees and balance/dizziness problems, I'm not a good candidate for a bike - sorry. Cars still remain 1st choice for "Denverites".

Jim
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 › 9:38am
What a great concept. I hope it catches on all over.

Charles
Saturday, December 5, 2009 › 1:27am
Thank you for starting this discussion. I love my neighborhood in Lynwood but hope someday it can transform into the type of urban street scape that is more pedestrian friendly and less car centric. If there was an easier way to navigate to the light rail station at colorado I would use it more often. A street car up and down Colorado Blvd would help with this.

Its funny but all the best parts of the city based on street cars of the past all ready have the assets described in this plan. I want to see it branch out to reach other Denver neighborhoods.

Jim
Monday, December 7, 2009 › 8:33am
Listening to NPR this morning they discussed "cargo bikes". They are capable of carrying 2 kids and some cargo. I think they said the limit of cargo is 200 lbs. The cost they quoted is $3000. Not hard to justify when compared to the various costs of running a car. It's the 1st I've heard of them but they would seem to fit in with the street scape concept.

Barbara
Monday, December 7, 2009 › 9:26am
Interesting about the "cargo bikes", but pretty pricey. Is anyone else puzzled (?) that as we are promoting bicycles, the Chinese and Indians are buying cars like there's no tomorrow. Last year, Shanghai actually banned bicycles in their city.
At the risk of begging the issue, these past few frigid days have not been all that conducive to bike riding at 3 degrees (as of 9am) - Brrr, but I have seen a couple of hearty young men biking around a nearby campus.

dave
Monday, December 7, 2009 › 1:01pm
Here you can see someone moving the furniture in a house using pedal power:

http://www.pedicab.com/wordpress/2009/12/03/man-moves-into-new-house-using-only-pedal-power/

Also, during the Parade of Lights there is was super cold and there were 40 pedicabs taking people around Downtown Denver. Pedal Power is Possible!

Jim
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 › 9:38am
What a great concept. I hope it catches on all over.