Denver City Councilmembers pressed Amy Ford, executive director of Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, for details following a public outcry over changes to its “lane repurposing project” on East Alameda Avenue.
Councilmembers wrote Mayor Mike Johnston last week after a television news story was aired, alleging that the city had succumbed to lobbying pressure in changing its original plans to downsize Alameda’s four lanes of traffic east of South Broadway to just two lanes.
Johnston denied the charge. Ford described for councilmembers a process where DOTI had changed directions following a closer look at the specifics of previous crashes along the corridor…