Colorado Boulevard is almost synonymous with traffic jams. If advocates succeed in putting the road on a diet, the major traffic artery will become curb-to-curb gridlock.
The Colorado Department of Transportation is eyeing a bus rapid transit project along the thoroughfare. It’s a model Denver’s own transportation department is pursuing in other parts of the city, and the Regional Transportation District began work on one such project this week along east Colfax extending into Aurora.
It’s all about making way for buses and bicycles — at the expense of the personal passenger vehicles almost all of us rely on daily. In other words, the project is another front in the war on cars…