Along a well-manicured street in Denver’s historic Park Hill area, residents are trying to pump the brakes on a neighborhood bikeway project that some say creates more danger for pedestrians and cyclists than it does protection.
Close to 30 neighbors gathered inside the Kearney Street residence of John Rice on Wednesday to ask District 9 Councilmember Darrell Watson and Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) Engineer Supervisor Brett Boncore to explain the city’s reasoning behind the excessive number of highly reflective bollards and ‘pinch points’ that tend to force cyclists off the bikeway and back into traffic.
They also wanted to know why the city did minimal public outreach surrounding the project…