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RTD faces ‘make or break’ moment as CEO Debra Johnson announces departure
Churchill, of Greater Denver Transit, said Johnson was dealt “a really tough hand of cards,” but that the agency had fallen short. “I'm very thankful for her long years of service in that regard. But RTD’s post-pandemic ridership recovery is worse than almost any...
Wash Park West Residents Call for City to Reverse Course on Road Diet
June Churchill, a member of the Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Committee and the DOTI advisory board, said Wash Park West is dealing with a “breach of public process,” and that she sees the new road diet as a plan to “spend more money to downgrade safety.” Like Alvidrez,...
Mayor’s Bicycle Advisors Finally Get a Meeting
June Churchill, a member of the MBAC once known as “Denver’s bike mayor,” pointed out that “there’s no major new bike projects” approved for Vibrant Denver bond funding, which cyclists had also noted before the bond measure was approved. Still, Johnston’s meeting with...
At least one citizen advisory board member has quit over DOTI walking back its Alameda plans
June Churchill, a longtime bike advocate and member of the board, said the new design “directly degrades left-hand turn safety compared to the original final design.” “I failed to see how there's a good engineering reason for these changes,” Churchill said. “This...
What Denver leaders heard at the ‘most intense public hearing’
June Churchill, the budget chair of the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Advisory Board, argued Johnston was treating the money as a “slush fund.” Churchill described the city’s overall budget as “fundamentally flawed.” The city has more assets than...
Denver’s Mayoral Bike Committee Grinding Gears to Meet With Mike Johnston
But MBAC member June Churchill, who was once named Denver’s “Bike Mayor” by a local lobbying group, tells Westword that the city isn’t leaning on the bike committee as much as she’d like. “Obviously, if you’re on an advisory committee, you want to do your job, which...
Denver cyclists call for change as ghost bike is dedicated to Salih Koç, 21
Last week, June Churchill – a bike advocate who serves as the budget chair of DOTI’s advisory committee – talked to Denver7 about the bond proposal. “It's $900 million of projects. Given the low cost of bike infrastructure, we should expect something, but there was...
Bike advocates say they were left out of Denver’s big spending plan
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...
Director of Denver’s transportation department explains decision to change ‘finalized’ plans for protected bike lane
June Churchill, a transportation advocate known as Denver's current "bike mayor," questions the precedent the late change could create moving forward. “Now, every single time DOTI publishes a 100% design, there's going to be a question of, ‘Is this actually...
Mike Johnston’s latest ‘Vision Zero’ update will target speeders with more cameras, more signs and more tickets
June Churchill, the Denver Bicycle Lobby’s Bike Mayor, echoed those comments — and cautioned that Denver’s streets need more than cameras, signs and other quick interventions. “They don’t solve the underlying problem,” she said. “Our roads are dangerous by design.”...
You can change how your city works, says Denver’s “Bike Mayor”
June Churchill, Denver's new "Bike Mayor," first became interested in bike advocacy in 2017 when she became independent from her parents. "I was still using a car that they owned the title to, so I figured I didn't want them to have that over me so I...