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The car-free City Park fight is about giving our kids an equitable future of parks, public transit and safe streets.
At 8 a.m. in central Denver, there’s plenty of traffic. There’s noise, exhaust pollution and hurried commuters. But throughout City Park, groups of children gather with backpacks and water bottles. They hug their parents goodbye and set out to climb trees. They admire red-tailed hawks nesting nearby but know not to chase geese. They observe the cycle of the moon. They cherish the nature found in City Park, the crown jewel of Denver’s parks. Worldmind Nature School has permits to utilize City Park as an outdoor classroom for students in preschool through fifth grade. They’ve used the park for several years now, but this year offered a more robust outdoor classroom; nature flourished thanks to the absence of cars. The school always operates primarily outdoors, but this year, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, most classes have been outdoors 100 percent of the
Coloradans will call for significant increase in transit, walking, rolling and biking
People walking in Manitou Springs in July 2020
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) As the legislature works on a transportation funding bill, nine Coloradans from across the state shared their personal multimodal stories and call for a significant investment in transit, walking, rolling, and biking.
At the event, the coalition released a slide deck that highlighted the lack of investment Colorado makes in transit as a state. According to an analysis by SWEEP, the state covers 2.6% of the transit capital costs and 0.3% of the transit operating costs in Colorado. That compares to a national average of states funding 22.8% of state transit capital costs and 23% of state transit operating costs.