June Churchill, the finance chair of the city’s transportation advisory board, said Mayor Mike Johnston isn’t prioritizing the safety of bike riders. She wants to see funding go to traffic-calming up and down 13th and 14th avenues, a bike lane on North Broadway and a Mississippi Avenue bridge over the South Platte River. If the city wants safe biking, it needs to focus on creating connectivity, she said.
As Churchill sees it, the city under Johnston has been slow to build bike lanes, and has even removed some stretches of protected bike lanes downtown and elsewhere.
“They spent $200,000 on an outside contractor to rip out about 40 feet of the protected bike lane in front of the STK Steakhouse to make more room for their valet parking,” she said.
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