It’s along Commerce City roadways such as 60th Avenue and Olive Street where longtime residents like Verona Gonzales say they have had enough.
“The drivers around here are crazy,” said Gonzales. “We’ve had some that have come straight through here [and] crashed into my house. We’ve had folks that have come straight through the yard here, almost taken out poles.”
Gonzales says the traffic and speeding can be so bad that she does not even feel safe letting her kids play on the sidewalk of the Colorado city.
“Absolutely, especially on their bikes and scooters,” she said. “People take this corner way too fast.”
“We do have someone who lives in the area. She’s 90 years old. She called me up and said, ‘Please, I’m watching every day on my porch and seen people just fly by. It’s really dangerous,'” said Commerce City Mayor Steve Douglas.
It is why Douglas is pushing a new proposal to install more speed bumps across city routes that’s based on resident complaints, traffic data and accident reports. This includes areas like Olive Street from 60th Avenue to 58th Avenue, Oneida Street from 60th Avenue to 58th Avenue, and from 60th to 58th with Southbound Street and Northbound north that run along Newport Street and Magnolia Street.