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Boulder’s Protected Bike Lane Removal Would Be Just the 4th Nationwide

By Michael Andersen | Sep 29, 2015 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Boulder, Colorado, will vote today on whether to become the fourth U.S. city to remove a modern protected bike lane. The others are Memphis, where a riverside project was removed this year after […]

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Transport U: CU-Boulder Catches the Bus to Savings

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 24, 2013 | No Comments

This is the third installment in Streetsblog’s series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ, part two profiled Stanford, and part three looked at MIT. Sustainability is part of the ethos in Boulder, where there’s a joke that there are more bikes than people. And the University of […]

Eyes on the Street: Livable Streets a Mile High

By Noah Kazis | Jan 28, 2010 | 8 Comments

A little end-of-day action from the Streetsblog Flickr pool, courtesy of BeyondDC: Here’s Denver’s 16th Street Shuttle, also called the MallRide. Check out those three low-floor doors for easy-on, easy-off boarding and alighting. The MallRide travels up and down a mile-long pedestrian mall — the only vehicle allowed there — arriving every 90 seconds. It’s […]

Streetfilms Inspires Boulder to Paint Some Streets

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Oct 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

We just love when we hear Streetfilms motivational stories from around the globe. Our latest report comes out of Boulder, Colorado. Last year, I traveled there for four days to document the city’s League of American Bicyclists Platinum Status. As is usual on one of these trips, we try to designate one night for a […]

Streetfilms: Boulder Goes Bike Platinum

By Ben Fried | Dec 8, 2008 | 7 Comments

Clarence Eckerson rounds out Streetfilms’ series on Boulder, Colorado with this long-form opus. Boulder was recently awarded a rare platinum rating from the League of American Bicyclists, and here we get a flavor for the city’s bike network and the story behind it. I like this telling detail: When it snows, Boulder’s bike paths get […]

Streetfilms: JUMP Aboard the Boulder Bus

By Ben Fried | Oct 15, 2008 | 5 Comments

The third Streetfilm in Clarence Eckerson’s Boulder series has a lot of good ideas for cities looking to make bus service a viable alternative to driving. In the words of former mayor Will Toor, Boulder’s bus system has evolved over the last 20 years from a "social service" to a mode "that can compete for […]

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