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Seeking a safer bike lane Residents voice concern over bringing protected lanes to historic street BY KAILYN LAMB KLAMB@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
As Amy Kenreich pulls up to the intersection at South Marion Parkway and East Dakota Avenue, she slows at the stop sign and reminds her two children to do the same. “What do I always tell you?” she asks her son, Dylan. “One foot on the ground,” he replies. Kenreich is a community volunteer with the Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Committee. The committee was formed as part of the Mobility Action Plan, which outlines various transportation and safety goals. Vision Zero, the goal to have zero pedestrian traffic deaths by 2030, is part of the plan, which also aims to have 30% of commuters walking, biking or taking transit by 2030. In 2017, voters approved the Elevate Denver Bond fund that included $18 million for bike lane projects throughout Denver. Lowering traffic deaths means the city also has been looking into ways to make bike lanes safer. Protected bike lanes give bicyclists more space. Drivers also tend to go more slowly around these types of lanes, according to a study by Fehr and Peers Transportation Consultants. One of those projects is enhancing a current bike lane along a four-block stretch of South Marion Parkway. Meeting with the community Kenreich has recently been speaking at community meetings about the new protected bike lane along South Marion Parkway, which is across the street from Washington Park. Amy Kenreich and her son Dylan ride their bikes on the South Marion Parkway bike lane. The city of Denver has released design ideas to build a new protected bike lane along the street. KAILYN LAMB
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VOICES: PAGE 8 | LIFE: PAGE 10 | CALENDAR: PAGE 13 | SPORTS: PAGE 11 VOLUME 92 | ISSUE 36