Denver (KDVR) – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure in Denver recently made changes to some bicycle corridors in the city center, which have some of the two reasons: safety and $ 200,000 spent on the project.
June Churchill does not understand. As the head of the budget for the DOTI Consultative Council and the thirsty motorcycles itself, the changes made by the city frustrate it.
“I just look at this and I love, where is the meaning?” She said.
Doti says she recently decided to remove flexible publications along Blake Street and Market Street in favor of divisions called zipper, and leaves only jobs in areas with larger vision, such as street corners. Officials say the idea is to clarify the visual chaos that Doti says that people complained of sight and opened.
However, Churchill says it makes the corridors only more dangerous.
“We have already seen this since the removal of these flexible publications, and cars are now more comfortable, like moving over the zipper,” she said.
Specifically, Doti says it has removed the posts in front of Steakhouse on the market to help clarify the car lane in the car row, which is frustrated Churchill, where cars can now prevent the cyclone lane easily.
Churchill said: “Every time someone is standing in the cycling corridor, the person who runs traffic is forced, right?
Safety is not its only concern. Doti says it has spent $ 200,000 on these changes, using the money they say is aside for “live transport and calm traffic.” While Dutti says this not only means cyclists, Churchill says this is the greatest purpose of the box.
“They used the money for bikeways to reduce the Bikeway level,” she said.
In general, Churchill says Dutti’s decisions are concerned about the future of bicycle safety in Denver.
“We take money from the wrong box to do the wrong thing for wrong reasons,” she said.