Denver's is breaking records, and not in a good way, with traffic deaths. The city's next leaders have to solve this.
Denver is on a record-breaking streak, and it’s not a good thing.
This is a public-health crisis, one of the many that Denverites are facing right now. While traffic safety is far from the only issue on which we need bold leadership, it is a critical one that intersects with other disparities in our community. Nationally, unhoused individuals, poor folks and people of color are overrepresented in the traffic fatality statistics.
To the city’s credit, since committing to Vision Zero, it's built out some bikeways and bus lanes and made spot improvements on some of Denver’s deadliest streets, known as the— the 5 percent of the streets where 50 percent of the traffic fatalities occur, like Colfax and Federal. But the numbers show that’s not enough.
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