A Big Win for Cars in RiNo, Another Swastika on Colfax, and a Shocking Number of Unpaid Parking Tickets

2025-02-04

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In an email sent late Friday, the RiNo Art District announced that cars would be returning to the 2900 block of Larimer Street, ending a nearly five-year experiment born early in the pandemic. So as the pedestrian-friendly open space went back to traffic as usual over the weekend, urbanists organized a protest, and producer Paul Karolyi was on the scene. He joins host Bree Davies to talk about who’s responsible for this turnaround and all the other big stories of the week — from the appearance of a second swastika in the window of ...

Paul mentioned the 50 Protests 50 States protest planned for February 5th at the Colorado State Capitol.

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