Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is back with another creative detour from common sense. According to Denver7, CDOT is asking for public input on their plan to improve biking and walking infrastructure across the state. Because when I think about endangered lives on Colorado roads, my first thought isn’t the pothole-filled highways—it’s whether or not Chad can safely rollerblade to Whole Foods.
The Bullet Point Brief
- CDOT is crowdsourcing feedback for a multimillion-dollar bike/pedestrian plan instead of fixing actual roads.
- No mention of increasing highway lane miles or improving critical road infrastructure we actually use.
- The vision includes “equity and sustainability” because buzzwords fix asphalt apparently.
- This is all happening while state highways continue to handle more traffic than they were ever built for.
My Bottom Line
Classic CDOT—more obsessed with your mountain bike than your brake pads. They’re out there drawing rainbow bike lanes on cracked asphalt while ignoring the fact that our actual roadways look like something out of a Mad Max sequel. Let me ask you this: how many lives are saved by expanding shoulder space for e-scooters compared to widening a damned two-lane highway that hasn’t been upgraded since John Denver was still topping charts? Priority, folks. It’s called priority.
Look—I don’t hate bikes. Ride one if you want! Ring the bell and wear some spandex, I don’t care. But stop pretending like building fancy bike lanes all over creation takes precedence over fixing dangerous highway junctions where people are dying. We need asphalt, engineering—not virtue-signaled flatulence disguised as “infrastructure equity.” You want feedback, CDOT? Here’s mine: Drop the crayons and start pouring concrete.
If you’re gonna spend taxpayer money, do it on things that keep us alive and moving forward—not on pet projects that look cute in grant applications but don’t keep minivans from crashing head-on in outdated merging zones. More lane miles. Period.
