Residents of the Washington Park area are voicing strong opposition to a city plan that would reduce traffic lanes on Alameda Avenue. The proposal, spearheaded by Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI), aims to reconfigure the busy corridor between Downing Street and Franklin Street. But neighbors argue the changes will worsen congestion, harm local businesses, and push traffic deeper into residential streets.
At the heart of the plan is a major reconfiguration of Alameda’s lanes. Currently, the road has two lanes in each direction. DOTI intends to cut that down to a single lane each way, adding dedicated left-turn lanes in certain stretches and installing medians with bollards to restrict some left turns altogether.
“They’re going to take out two traffic lanes,” explained Jill, a member of the grassroots coalition Act for Alameda. “So it will be one lane, east and west. And then with the space they gain in some places, they’re going to put left turn lanes.”…