Everyone is welcome! We discuss a range of transportation, transit, and streets topics, build connections with the agencies and organizations involved, and ensure that neighborhood input is included in plans at all levels! Attendees do not need to be INC delegates. You are welcome to participate even if your neighborhood organization is not a member of INC, or you are not active in a neighborhood group. Please pass on this invitation to anyone who might be interested in joining the committee — they can use this form to be added to our growing e-mail list!

This month, we have several topics that directly tie to goals in our INC Transportation Platform, including new street design guidelines,  slower vehicle speeds in our neighborhoods, and making our public transit system simpler, more frequent, and more useful to a greater number of residents.

See the agenda below, and register for the meeting at https://bit.ly/INCTransportationAug2020 to join us on Thursday!

Agenda – INC Transportation Committee – Thursday, August 13th, 6:30-8 p.m

• Short Topics
  • 20 Is Plenty – Jill Locantore, Executive Director of Denver Streets Partnership
    The Denver Streets Partnership has started distributing yard signs calling for a new default speed limit of 20 miles per hour for Denver streets. This is is consistent with our INC Transportation Platform, which calls for revising speed limits based on best practices from other cities, and specifically lowering speeds on local residential streets. Jill will share the specifics of DSP’s request, how would it work, and how it would lead to changing the speeds people actually drive in and through neighborhoods.
    • Learn more about the 20 Is Plenty effort and sign up for a yard sign at http://bit.ly/20isplentydenver
    • For more background on the importance of lowering speeds to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries, the Vision Zero Network has you covered.
  • State Legislative Update – Piep van Heuven, Director of Government Relations, Bicycle Colorado
    Each session there are several pieces of legislation that can affect the safety of the streets in Denver and around Colorado. Piep van Heuven, a regular at our INC Transportation Committee meetings, will give us a brief update on key transportation legislation in the last session including Bicycle Colorado’s 2020 legislative efforts, and what to look forward to next session.
• Full Topics
  • Denver’s New Complete Streets Guidelines – Riley LaMie, Denver DOTI Senior City Planner
    Denver has released a public review draft of its entirely-new Complete Streets Design Guidelines, so the timing is perfect for us to hear from Riley LaMie, a core member of the team developing these guidelines. INC and its member neighborhoods have called for new design standards that build in safety and comfort for everyone, no matter how you get around the city. We’ll explore how these draft guidelines, when translated next into engineering standards, can move us towards the goals in our Transportation Platform.
    • Comments on the draft guidelines are due by August 21st, 2020 — DOTI is asking that we use this form.
  • Reimagine RTD – Bill Sirois, RTD Senior Manager & Julie Skeen, Reimagine RTD Project Team
    Reimagine RTD provides an objective, data-driven process to engage our customers, regional partners, employees and community members in a discussion about how to address RTD’s current challenges, and to determine RTD’s role in meeting the long-term mobility needs of our region. The two main elements of the Reimagine planning effort are: Developing a near-term “System Optimization Plan” and creating a longer-term visionary “Mobility Plan for the Future”. Bill last joined us for a briefing on RTD’s current financial situation, and this topic will now orient us to the future of our regional transit agency and the goals behind the alternatives that are starting to take shape.

Event Announcements

• Community Active Living Coalition Public Meeting – Wed. August 12th, 5:30pm
  • The Denver Community Active Living Coalition is a diverse group of community members who care about health and safety through physical activity. We believe that all Denver residents, regardless of age or ability, should have equitable access to safe and vibrant places to walk, bike, roll, ride transit, and play.

    All are welcome at our bi-monthly meetings, where you can meet folks interested in active living, discuss health and transportation in Denver, and learn about upcoming opportunities and ways to stay involved.

    AGENDA:

    5:30 – Group Icebreaker
    5:45 – Denver’s Climate Action Task Force
    6:15 – CALC and partner updates

    For instructions on how to join the virtual meeting, visit https://bit.ly/calc0812

2020 Meeting Schedule
Calendar ahead! Our Zoom meeting schedule for 2020 (meeting links to be sent with each meeting announcement) is:

• Thursday, September 10th, 2020 — 6:30pm-8pm
• Thursday, October 8th, 2020 — 6:30pm-8pm
• Thursday, November 12th, 2020 — 6:30pm-8pm
• Thursday, December 10th, 2020 — 6:30pm-8pm