The Jefferson Park neighborhood has been making a Federal case about getting safer streets for a decade.
, a Colorado Department of Transportation program developed in 2020 to support safer streets. Eleven people, including seven pedestrians, died in car crashes on Federal Boulevard in 2017; between 2012 and 2017, 22 percent of all fatal pedestrian-car collisions in Denver happened on Federal. To make the entire area safer, CDOT committed to making improvements along Federal Boulevard from Barnum Park all the way up to West 52nd Avenue.
"If you stand there long enough, you see people kind of darting through traffic where people are not supposed to be crossing," says Leslie Twarogowski, executive director of the Federal Boulevard BID."We’re trying to entice people to come down to the intersection rather than the mid-block section."