DENVER (KDVR) — Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure recently made changes to some downtown bike lanes that have some concerned for two reasons: Safety and the $200,000 spent on the project.
June Churchill doesn’t understand. As the budget chair for DOTI’s advisory board and an avid biker herself, the changes made by the city frustrate her.
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“I just look at this and I’m like, where’s the sense?” she said.
DOTI says it recently decided to remove flex posts along Blake Street and Market Street in favor of dividers called zippers, only leaving posts in areas of greater visibility, like street corners. The idea, officials say, is to clear up visual clutter that DOTI says people had complained about and open up sight lines…