Denver Advances Colorado Boulevard Safety Measures Amid Calls for Faster Action
Denver's Colorado Boulevard is undergoing safety improvements as part of the city's Vision Zero initiative, despite ongoing concerns about traffic deaths and the pace of changes. The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) is implementing measures like speed feedback signs…
Denver, CO, October 22, 2026 —
Denver is adding safety measures along Colorado Boulevard as part of the city’s Vision Zero initiative, while concerns continue about traffic deaths and the pace of improvements. The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, or DOTI, is implementing speed feedback signs and adjustments to traffic signal timing.
The city also plans more substantial intersection changes and speed enforcement cameras. The trend summary does not specify when those measures will be installed, which intersections will be affected, or how the planned camera program will operate.
The efforts are intended to address a high number of crashes on the corridor. One location identified in the summary is the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Mississippi Avenue. No crash totals, dates, details about individual incidents, or specific information about proposed changes at that intersection were provided.
Advocates are pressing for safety measures to be implemented more quickly. Their concerns come as the city proceeds with the current work, but the summary does not identify the advocates or describe their specific proposals. It also does not provide a timeline for the improvements or details about how DOTI will assess whether the measures are reducing crashes.
Vision Zero is the city initiative under which the work is being carried out, according to the summary. Beyond that, no additional goals, targets, or performance data were provided. The available information likewise does not state how many speed feedback signs are being installed, what signal timing changes are being made, or how many enforcement cameras are planned.
For now, the described work includes signs and signal adjustments, with larger intersection changes and cameras still identified as planned measures. The scope, schedule and expected effect of those plans were not specified, leaving the pace of implementation a central point of concern for advocates.
Story summarized from the original created by Ryan Fish on www.denver7.com, see more information here.
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