Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Ball Park Safety Meeting

[Bryan Wilson]

Please invite Tyler Brookhart, or someone from SAFE-T Lane to make a presentation at this meeting to potentially install the product on the stretches of Blake Street from 22nd to 20th as a pilot project to be expanded in Denver.
https://safetlane.com/

This product will make it safer for bike riders when the street is open to traffic & will make it safer for pedestrians by keeping them out of the bike lane when the street is closed to traffic. It's a win for everyone.

Thank you,
Bryan Wilson

On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 12:34 PM Shelby, Darius - CC City Council Aide <Darius...@denvergov.org> wrote:

Thanks for the follow up Bryan,

 

I am going to get this over to the proper agencies, and as I mentioned before we are working to get this on the GID meeting in July where DPD, Rockies, and potentially DOTI will be in attendance.

 

Best regards,

 

Darius Shelby | Community Outreach Director Office of Councilmember Darrell Watson | City and County of Denver  Pronouns | He/Him/His   Phone: (720) 337-7709 Click Here to Sign Up for District 9 Newsletter 311 | denvergov.org | Denver 8 TV | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

 

 

 

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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Ball Park Safety Meeting

 

Thank you for your response. Really, it's a single question. . . How can we prioritize keeping the Blake Street Protected Bikelane open for special events including Rockies Games that connects to the dedicated parking area?!?! - Every game,

Thank you for your response. Really, it's a single question...

 

 

How can we prioritize keeping the Blake Street Protected Bikelane open for special events including Rockies Games that connects to the dedicated parking area?!?!

 

 

- Every game, someone, I presume DPD, drags the purple barricades into each end of the bike lane at 22nd & 20th.

- Lime bikes & scooters were temporarily geofenced from being ridden through the corridor.

 

Can we not see/understand how this is an issue?

This means...

There is no way to safely bike from 22nd & Blake through the area just as a commuter or someone trying to reach the dedicated bike parking area.

 

That makes 20th in front of Jackson's an issue too. We need to identify the curbside lane from Wazee to Blake as a 2-way bike lane. This will keep bike & scooter riders off the sidewalk in front of Jackson's.

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

 

 

Respectfully,

Bryan Wilson 

 

 

 

 

On Tue, May 19, 2026, 12:09 PM Shelby, Darius - CC City Council Aide <Darius...@denvergov.org> wrote:

Hello Bryan,

 

Thanks for your continued advocation for improvements along Blake Street, our office is working to get this topic on the Ballpark GID Safety Steering Committee in July, DPD and Rockies staff are generally in these meetings. We will also coordinate with DOTI to see if they could possibly attend this meeting as well.

 

In the meantime, if you could please send over an email with a clear list of your questions and concerns, we will get those sent over to the proper agencies/entities for them to review and answer ahead of that meeting.

 

Thanks again for your engagement and we appreciate your patience as our office tries to help with these concerns.

 

Darius Shelby | Community Outreach Director Office of Councilmember Darrell Watson | City and County of Denver  Pronouns | He/Him/His   Phone: (720) 337-7709 Click Here to Sign Up for District 9 Newsletter 311 | denvergov.org | Denver 8 TV | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

 

 

 

From: Bryan Wilson <bryan...@gmail.com>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Ball Park Safety Meeting

 

Thank you for the update! I'm requesting that you or somebody from your office find answers to these questions please. Again, it seems to me that an inexpensive temporary solution would be to rope off the bike lane from pedestrians. This

Thank you for the update! 

 

I'm requesting that you or somebody from your office find answers to these questions please.

 

Again, it seems to me that an inexpensive temporary solution would be to rope off the bike lane from pedestrians. This is important because as I previously pointed out, there is no direct connection from Blake at 22nd around the closure. 

 

Why can bike lanes be closed at all without appropriate detours?

 

So again, the result of this is for bike and scooter riders to then illegally ride on the sidewalk along 22nd and then again along Market or the wrong way in the bike lane along Market. 

 

I also feel that it's easy for anyone to still access this closure with a motor vehicle due to the intense focus on closing the bike lane. I think this is especially true on the opposite side at 20th. 

 

Again, long-term, we can plan for quickly installing some of the modular concrete barriers that connect to one another. These appear to take up the same amount of space as the existing protection, but is much more robust and would require pedestrians to step over it, ideally keeping them out of the bike lane. 

https://safetlane.com/about/

I took the liberty of including Tyler on this email. Maybe we can look into incorporating the system all portions of the protected bike lanes that are adjacent to vehicle travel lanes. While we're at it, maybe we also look into shifting all of Larimer and Blake to become left-running to make sure that they are continuous. 

 

I'm requesting an email to be sent from your office to the appropriate entities and to be CC'd or BCC'd on that email.

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

 

Respectfully,

Bryan Wilson 

 

 

 

On Mon, May 11, 2026, 9:39 AM Shelby, Darius - CC City Council Aide <Darius...@denvergov.org> wrote:

Hello Bryan,

 

I wanted to reach out and notify you that the Ball Park Safety Meeting for May 20^th has been cancelled, I will touch base with the meeting organizers to see if they can put the Blake Street Bike Lane on the agenda for the June 17^th meeting from 2:00 – 3:00 PM.

 

Thank you,

 

Darius Shelby | Community Outreach Director Office of Councilmember Darrell Watson | City and County of Denver  Pronouns | He/Him/His   Phone: (720) 337-7709 Click Here to Sign Up for District 9 Newsletter 311 | denvergov.org | Denver 8 TV | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram