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🛣️ Alameda Avenue Gets a (Temporary?) New Look

Alameda Avenue is testing a “road diet” — a traffic strategy that helps reduce accidents and speeding by temporarily removing a lane of traffic. After a very heated debate over the past year, city officials plan to collect data from the new traffic pattern to help decide how to proceed with a permanent redesign that makes the road safer.

• Where is it happening? The test, which is expected to last until early 2027, is being implemented on Alameda Avenue in between Franklin and Lincoln streets. It also entails reducing the speed limit to 25 mph in certain areas near pedestrian walkways. [Denverite]
• Why is this necessary? For years, residents have been calling on city officials to improve safety along Alameda. The road belongs to Denver's high injury network, where traffic deaths are disproportionately high. [Axios Denver]
• Yes, you’ve heard this before: In 2025, the city proposed a plan to make Alameda safer by dropping it from four lanes to two directional lanes, plus one turning lane. However, some local residents, most notably Jill Anschutz, said the plan would increase congestion and worsen traffic on side streets. The city then downgraded the plan, despite a lengthy community comment period. Now some neighbors are calling for DOTI executive director Amy Ford to be fired, and Mayor Mike Johnston is calling his critics “Trumpian.” [Denver7; City Cast Denver]

🌳 Golden Triangle Gets a New Park

The Golden Triangle neighborhood is getting a new green space, thanks to funds from the voter-approved Park Legacy Fund. The park, which will be developed from a former credit union, will serve thousands of Denverites in District 10, which currently has the least amount of green space in the city. [Denver Post 🔐]

🙈 Lauren Boebert’s Son Arrested for Sexual Exploitation

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s 21-year-old son Tyler is facing multiple charges of sexual exploitation of a child. The charges are linked to a video posted to Instagram that Tyler filmed of himself when he was 18, having sex with a girl who was 17. He was released on $10,00 bond. [NBC News]

🖥️ Aurora Rejects Moratorium on Data Centers

Despite community concern over energy and environmental impacts, Aurora City Council struck down a temporary moratorium on the construction of data centers. Instead, the council approved a resolution to develop standards for data centers without halting their production. [Denver7]

🛼 Would You Watch a Stranger Learn How to Roller Skate?

There’s a new trend taking over Denver’s streets. People are placing flyers around town advertising banal aspects of their life (like learning how to roller skate or chugging a little too much milk) as if the whole world might want to watch … but maybe they do? Tune into the City Cast Denver podcast today to hear producer Olivia Love and green chile correspondent Justine Sandoval discuss the fad. [City Cast Denver 🎧]