Husband / wife (while running) die at same intersection 2 years apart

Cars again

Very few cities in he US have any real interest in protecting pedestrians, runners, cyclists or even drivers.

We know how to decrease traffic deaths:

1 make people driver slower - narrow roads

2 add separate spaces for runners and cyclists

3 traffic enforcement - automated enforcemen

4 incentivize smaller cars with better visibility

but people simply dont want it.

I work in transportation planning. I can tell you right now that nothing will be done here because it is a state-owned road.

In every city, every county, every state: look at the roads with most crashes and fatalities. 99 times out of 100 (even excluding interstates), the most dangerous roads are state-owned.

Cities want to fix these roads, more often than not. But they simply can't because the state DOTs get the final say and just won't do it. The culture in state level DOTs is always volume volume volume. Safety is not the priority.

Things are changing, but slowly. Hundreds of thousands will continue to die in the meantime.

**ped by the traffic light

It does look crowded as that’s way too many people and cars at that intersection as it needs a light

Back to the Future told me that we would have flying cars by 2015.

"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."

I had a friend that got in a head on collision with his own mother. In a town neither of them lived in.

Strange things happen.

That is right on the edge of Cherry Hills. The average house right there goes for about five million dollars. The neighborhood is full of titans of industry, doctors and some pro athletes. It is a blind intersection and cars drive way too fast on Belleview (limit is 35, people routinely drive over 50). That being said, Franklin is not a heavily trafficked street. Pedestrians use it because Franklin is a good street to run on (wide shoulder, little traffic) and going south will take you to the highline canal trail, which is a great place to run or bike (miles and miles of dirt trails in safe, beautiful neighborhoods). There is a signal further to the west (Clarkson) that is good for crossing. The only drawback is the neighborhood off Franklin is isolated from the poorer neighborhood to the west, so there are no low traffic roads to connect back to Franklin.

As a local, what solutions do you think the community would support?

I never drive through that intersection. I’ve run through there a couple times. It’s not terrible if you are patient. I wouldn’t try to cross it during high traffic times. From an engineering perspective, there isn’t a signal there because it would construct traffic flow in and out of the Tech Center (more people work in the Tech than downtown). I always go over to Clarkson. Would be a decent location for a pedestrian bridge. A lot of Cherry Hills is designed to keep people out (there aren’t sidewalks along major roads, no bus stops, etc.). You just have to be smart about where, when and how you cross major intersections. Franklin is a great street to run on (lots of trees, a nice hill, safe neighborhood and it connects to the highline). The highline itself is awesome. It’s all dirt from Wellshire Golf Course to Waterton Canyon (about forty miles), flat, and it has underpasses or crosswalks at most major intersections. It’s safe, pretty and shaded.

They need a light there as it’s incredibly dangerbutts otherwise

Why not some speed humps

That intersection could be a candidate for some sort of roundabout. Keeps things moving, but slower!

If that intersection is so dangerous and your wife was hit and killed by a car at that intersection why, why, WHY, would you run there? Didn't they effing look before trying to cross the street? I've lived in Littleton, Lakewood, and Denver. There are miles of safe paths throughout Denver and the suburbs. I don't get it. When running you don't own the street.

I've lived in several big east coast cities and also lived in Denver about 10 years ago.

I saw so many pedestrian involved car accidents in Denver. Deadly combination of infrastructure not catching up with population and people on drugs.

This is tragically poetic

Because pedestrians have a right to use streets just as much as cars and cities should invest in infrastructure that makes it safe for everyone. Signals, cross walks, sidewalks, trails etc.