TL;DR Sign up to support coordinated mass action for Vision Zero on March 11th, 2026 here: http://bit.ly/311ActionDayInterest

Denver is a Vision Zero city, which means elected and appointed city leaders, as well as city staff and contractors, have made a very specific commitment: the only acceptable number of people who should die or experience life-altering injuries on our transportation system every year is zero people. Every year since 2016, when Mayor Hancock committed to Vision Zero, a hell of a lot more people than zero have died on Denver’s streets due to preventable traffic crashes. On the City’s publicly available dashboard of Vision Zero data, since 2013, the city has tracked 374 fatalities for people in cars, 294 fatalities for people walking, 148 fatalities of people on motorcycles, 42 fatalities of people biking, 17 fatalities of people on electric scooters, and 15 other fatalities on more unique mobility devices. Meanwhile, another city that committed to Vision Zero, Hoboken, New Jersey, has gone now 9 full years without a single traffic fatality. We do not have to live like this.

As part of committing to Vision Zero, Denver claims allegiance to the Safe Systems Approach. This approach consists of six principles articulating on the City’s website.

  • Safety is proactive
  • Responsibility is shared
  • Redundancy is crucial
  • Humans are vulnerable
  • Humans make mistakes
  • Death and serious injury are unacceptable

As such, we need to proactively address dangerous roads, dangerous intersections, dangerous trends in mobility, and dangerous behavior on Denver’s roads using all the tools in our toolbox. We need to take responsibility for the deadly effects of our transportation system. We need to rebuild our roads to allow for error-prone humans to fall off their bike without being run over, to drive home at night without suffering injury or death, to cross the busy street by their house accessibly, to wait for the bus safely, to move as a person on the street with dignity. So we’re calling on Denver residents, who know their streets, their intersections, and best know what makes them vulnerable in Denver’s transportation system, to direct the City’s attention this March, one month away.

When there is a pothole in the road, you can simply dial the number 311 on your phone and ask the city to fix it. When people are repeatedly parking in front of a fire hydrant, you can call 311 on your phone and ask the city to put a “No Parking Anytime” sign there. When the sidewalk is crumbling and flooding regularly, with the new resources Denver residents voted to make possible, you can call 311 and the City will plan to come repair it. Isn’t democracy wonderful? On March 11th, 2026, Denver Streets Partnership, the Denver Bicycle Lobby, Pedestrian Dignity, and DenverUrbanism are planning a “311 Day of Action” which we hope to culminate in a mass action, a “die in” out front of the City and County Building, which shows the City just how dearly the status quo is costing Denverite. The issues in Denver’s transportation system, big and small, are measured by a lot more than just money—our health, our livelihood, our pride and confidence, our very lives are on the line. We need volunteers both to get the word out about the Day of Action, and to volunteer to show up for these mass actions: the “die in,” a group ride, a walk and roll for pedestrian/transit dignity, a mass calling of 311 to report issues in your neighborhood, or all of the above! If you’re ready to see things change in Denver, please make your voice heard! Sign up using the interest form linked here: http://bit.ly/311ActionDayInterest. If you’re interested, you’ll hear from the organizers soon about how your support will change minds and change the block out front of your house to stop the deadly status quo.

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