Colorado’s pedestrian safety problem is not abstract. It is showing up on neighborhood streets, intersections, downtown corridors, school routes and other roads people use every day.

The Colorado Department of Transportation reported that pedestrian fatalities in Colorado rose 98.4% from 2015 to 2025. Between 2020 and 2025, Denver had …

Colorado saw a hard turn in the wrong direction in 2025.

After two straight years of declining fatalities, preliminary statewide data shows 701 people were killed on Colorado roadways in 2025, up from 689 in 2024. That increase may look small on paper, but it matters because it suggests risky …

For more than a decade, Colorado saw a relentless rise in pedestrian fatalities — a 161% increase that pushed annual deaths to record highs. In 2023, 136 pedestrians were killed statewide, the highest number in our history.

The most recent numbers, however, show something we have not seen in years: …

Crossing the Street Defensively; Texting and Driving Accidents

This just happened last week: A friend’s daughter was walking home from school in Denver and nearly got hit by a car. Actually, the car grazed her hip, but she was completely fine. The really awful part was that this middle school …

In a revealing piece, the New York Times recently highlighted a worrying trend across America: the increasing number of pedestrian fatalities occurring at night. It’s fascinating and I highly recommend you check it out.

(Tangent: The interactive stories put out by the Times and their data geeks are fascinating to …