00:00:00 Introductions
00:00:44 DRCOG 2050 Metro Vision Regional Transportation Plan
00:37:33 Reflections on an Eventful RTD Board Service & Future – Angie Rivera-Malpiede
01:07:22 Denver’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Future is Getting Closer
01:34:33 Advocacy for Better Neighborhood Bikeway Designs
01:45:47 Alliance to Transform Transportation Link to Better Neighborhood Bikeways
sign-on letter: https://bit.ly/DenverBetterBikeways

• DRCOG 2050 Metro Vision Regional Transportation Plan – Doug Rex, Executive Director & Jacob Riger, Manager of Long-Range Transportation Planning, DRCOG
  The day before our meeting, the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) will hold a public hearing on proposed updates to its 2050 Metro Vision Regional Transportation Plan. These changes are primarily in response to the state’s new Greenhouse Gas Planning Standard (known as the GHG Rule). The proposed GHG-related changes involve a framework of programmatic and project-specific changes to the plan, as well as other mitigation strategies that together further strengthen the plan’s multimodal investment priorities. Doug Rex, Executive Director, and Jacob Riger, Manager of Long-Range Transportation Planning, will give us the details and context of these important updates to the plan to address the state’s historic greenhouse gas emissions goals.
• Denver’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Future is Getting Closer – David Krutsinger, DOTI Director of Transit
  Denver is moving with more clarity on implementing prioritized transit on our major arterials, as called for in Denver Moves: Transit. This month, we are grateful to hear from David Krutsinger, the head of DOTI’s transit work. With just a brief update on East Colfax BRT (and the prospect of getting it done years sooner than previously anticipated!), we’ll hear about the progress being made on other major corridors as DOTI starts sequencing project investments within its multi-year strategic transportation plan. We’ll also hear how these efforts align with RTD’s regional BRT planning, and how DOTI sees CDOT helping on those arterial streets owned by the state agency.  Transit isn’t just about the vehicle operations — the streets have to be transit-supportive as well if we’re going to make this option a viable choice for more of Denver residents’ trips.
• Reflections on an Eventful RTD Board Service & Future – RTD Board Member Angie Rivera-Malpiede
  As Director Angie Rivera-Malpiede nears the end of her final term on the RTD Board of Directors, we have invited her to share with us her thoughts on how RTD has faced the challenges of the last several years, and what she sees ahead for our regional transit agency.
• Advocacy for Better Neighborhood Bikeway Designs – Allen Cowgill, Denver Bicycle Lobby
  Among the variety of bike facilities in Denver, the “Neighborhood Bikeway” is considered by the City to be a high-comfort type that anyone of any age should feel comfortable riding on.  While some neighborhood bikeways are the type of quiet neighborhood streets where speedy cars aren’t present (and perhaps speed and cut-through traffic have been discouraged by strategic infrastructure  changes), many others are nothing more than “sharrows” on roads with threateningly fast traffic and no separation for bikes. What is a Neighborhood Bikeway — and why are we getting such a mixed implementation of comfortable and dangerous implementations?  Allen Cowgill and other Denver resident bike advocates are raising the question, and want better answers.
• Alliance to Transform Transportation – Danny Katz, CoPIRG Executive Director
  On August 31st, CoPIRG and a coalition of partners announced the formation of the Alliance to Transform Transportation — a Denver metro-focused alliance to greatly expand sustainable funding for transit and the infrastructure that makes it possible by 2025. We’ll hear about the vision for reliable, fast, competitive service so good it can transform how Denverites move, and why so many environmental, transportation, social justice and other organizations have come together to launch this effort.