#Removing stopad drivers

17th Avenue was closed for the stormwater project, and took them down this week in conjunction with East 17th Avenue reopening again.вЂќ вЂњWe kept the barricades in place to try to de-incentive cut-through traffic and speeding on E. вЂњThe setup on East 16th Avenue, with temporary type barricades, has been extremely difficult to maintain,вЂќ sheВ said. And maintaining the infrastructure is an increasing challenge, Kuhn said. Some neighbors, like Ruby Valles, told us car wrecks are up on 16th. вЂњWe do believe the temporary shared streets initiative was effective from a safety perspective (speed and crash reduction perspective) during the height of the pandemic when people were mostly staying home and vehicle volumes were very low, but things have changed,вЂќ explained Department of Transportation and Infrastructure spokesperson Nancy Kuhn in an email.Д¬ars are speeding again.

Since the barriers were effective in stopping crashes and protecting bikers, scooter riders and pedestrians, why remove them? Now this life-saving infrastructure that bikers, pedestrians and scooter riders celebrated is gone.

Other barricades from East 16th Avenue, from Pennsylvania Street to City Park Esplanade, were part of DenverвЂ™s temporary shared-streets initiative, designed to get people outside as part of the COVID-19 emergency response.

#Removing stopad drivers

The barriers were in place in City Park to deter drivers from zipping up and down the residential street while the major thoroughfare, 17th Avenue, was shut down for stormwater drainage construction. Until a few days ago, barricades, signs, roundabouts and other traffic calming devices had successfully reduced wrecks, noise and speeding on stretches of 16th Avenue - at least, initially.