Littleton Citizens for Better Streets

Littleton's streets are designed and optimized for cars, not people. We need to encourage other modes of transportation and make better streets that are safe.

[Matt Duff @mattcantstop]

Littleton Blvd and Broadway if we made it look more like this 😍. 10 ft of sidewalk, 5 ft of planted space, 10 ft of bicycle path, 5 ft of bike parking/buffer. Business would increase on those roads. Think of how much car parking it would take to store those bikes.

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

I love this bus station in Hawaii. They create a safe space for people with places to sit down and even congregate. Contrast this to some of the worst bus stops in Littleton where there is no place to sit and no space was made for people. #MoreSpaceForHumans

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

Broadway has a little slice of this, but sadly, a little slice does not enable people to feel safe during their entire trip. We need people to feel safe during their entire trip in order for them to ditch their cars for bikes.

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

Broadway in #Denver could look like this. It would reduce traffic for cars.

Saying we can't build bike lanes because not enough people bike is like saying we shouldn't build a bridge because we don't see enough people swimming across the river.

https://t.co/mOFoCQJAzx

[London Cycles @London_Cycles]

Re-distribute road space and you get -

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

It would reduce car traffic, bring people better health outcomes by active transport, reduce maintenance costs on a significant portion of the road, reduce pollution, enable people to travel cheaply (especially impactful for low income people), and make our city more livable.

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

This could be us @CityofLittleton but you playin’!

https://t.co/qPW9UeItEX

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

I want to see this type of reimagined street all over Littleton. Speed bumps are far less effective at slowing people down than narrow roads. We can give more space to kids, the elderly, and the disabled on our sidewalks and make our streets more safe.

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

@CityofLittleton we have some changes we need to make.

[Matt Duff @mattcantstop]

The @CityofLittleton just released a press release outlining the problems they are facing with the budget. These issues are clearly outlined by @clmarohn in his @StrongTowns book. I am worried for the city because of how far off their diagnosis is!

https://t.co/NxORphOkkZ

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

Fantastic video of how to make a great suburb. @CityofLittleton has the potential to be a great suburb like this! Let’s make it happen.

https://t.co/jxYBqiAQhF

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

We should make @CityofLittleton the most complete, safe city in all of the United States. That should be our goal. With our various trails we have a great start, but we can make it so much better.

https://t.co/SWDBkpA8Wb

[Jennifer Bartlett @plannerjen]

Heading into to City Park. My son says 'I'm safe from cars" as he rides though the barrier. He's 4.5 and already knows...

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

@DenverFUGLY @JCRiecke This is what I came to say as well. Brighton is the closest I have been in the Denver metro area.

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

We should be making our zoning laws so streets like this are possible. Incredibly dense business opportunities that are great for a tax base, family friendly, people come to visit them from all over. Let's get it done @CityofLittleton

https://t.co/Ek8uGsEJ8o

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

We need to make investments in active transportation in @CityofLittleton. I think we should aim to make safe bicycle infrastructure along main corridors to schools first, and Littleton Blvd and Main Street.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“A new cost-benefit study in New Zealand finds that investments in cycling & walking facilities outweigh the costs of building them by 10 to 1. The research found that the most important economic benefits were health gains from use of active transport.” https://t.co/JEGofP4vAj

[Matt Duff @mattcantstop]

Smaller fire trucks could work. And they would enable us to make roads more narrow.

https://t.co/6e3NQigMEI

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

Such beautiful infrastructure.

[Clover Moore AO @CloverMoore]

It’s not yet complete, but it is exciting to see Saunders Street cycleway in Pyrmont rideable!

Work is continuing on Miller Street as part of our project to complete a safe, separated cycle link between the ANZAC Bridge and the CBD.

[Tamara Krawchenko 🌻🍉 @T_Krawchenko]

Someone just posted on my neighbourhood message board that they were very much against #bike lanes but just cycled on the new lanes downtown and now take everything back and are a fan. It's happening people!

[Littleton Citizens for Better Streets @Littleton4Bikes]

I’d love to see a Main Street and Littleton Blvd that looks more like the bicycle and pedestrian focused city block.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Amsterdam’s plan to remove 11,200 parking spaces from its streets by the end of 2025 is even more inspiring when we realize the kind of people places that are possible where cars used to be. Example — #Amsterdam’s Elandsgracht between 2014 & 2019, via @schlijper’s great pics.

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

🤔:"I wonder why children these days don't play outside anymore like they did in the past..."

Outside (in the past) Outside (these days)

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

We constantly talk about how kids “these days” need to get less screen time and more outdoor time.

But by building cities for cars, we’ve systematically robbed them of the ability to do so.

A cycling city is a child-friendly city.

Video by @Streetfilms: https://t.co/rJ3KhhdVi7