Regional Vision Zero

Theme: Improve collaboration between allied agencies 

DRCOG staff coordinate with local government staff, state and federal partners, advocacy organizations and other safety stakeholders in the region through the Regional Vision Zero Working Group. The group meets virtually every other month to share lessons learned, best practices and to collaborate on implementing strategies and actions identified in the plan. 

To join the group, email Kathryn Rush, senior safety planner. Presentations and meeting recordings are posted to the event page after each meeting. 

2026 schedule of meetings

• February 10, 2026.
• April 14, 2026.
• June 9, 2026.
• August 11, 2026.
• October 13, 2026.
• December 8, 2026.

Theme: Improve data collection and reporting

DRCOG cleans and maps regional crash data received annually from the Colorado Department of Transportation. Access the DRCOG Data Catalog to download crash data from 2013 to the present. Another option is to use the DRCOG Crash Data Dashboard to view and query the location and condition of various types of crashes. Each crash point in the dashboard reflect a life affected by a crash — a reminder that behind the numbers are real people and communities.

To learn more about the challenges associated with crash data processing and what DRCOG and its state and local partners are doing to address those challenges, visit the Denver Regional Crash Data Consortium page.

Theme: Design and retrofit roadways

To meet the Denver region’s Vision Zero goal of zero traffic fatalities by 2040, local, county, and state agencies will need to implement proven safety countermeasures rapidly and at a wide scale. Capital projects are expensive and often take many years to implement. A quick-build approach — one that uses low-cost treatments, deploys them quickly and provides opportunities for piloting new treatments — is essential for advancing Vision Zero goals.

To encourage and support local and state governments with making more quick-build safety improvements, the “kit of parts” provides best practices and lessons learned from around the Denver region and the nation.

Part 1.  Introduction: what is quick-build? (coming soon).

Part 2. Database of quick-build safety improvements (coming soon).

Part 3. Quick-build materials and asphalt art considerations (coming soon).

Part 4. Quick-build example images.

• Medians and access management.
• Curb extensions.
• Pedestrian crossing enhancements.
• Residential traffic calming.
• Road diets, bike lanes and bus lanes.
• Pedestrian paths.
• Other miscellaneous treatments.

Part 5. Before and after evaluation template (coming soon).

If you have lessons learned, new information, or images to contribute to the Quick-Build Toolkit, email the images to Kathryn Rush, senior safety planner.

Theme: Increase funding and resources

There are several ways that DRCOG works to increase funding for safety improvements. This includes joining with local agencies to submit applications to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All grant program, and hosting presentations on state funding opportunities at Regional Vision Zero Working Group meetings.

DRCOG directly funds studies and projects aimed at improving safety through the Transportation Improvement Program and various Transportation Improvement Program set-asides, such as those for Corridor and Subarea Planning, Regional Transportation Operations and Technology,  and Innovative Mobility. Common scoring considerations for these programs include whether a location is on the regional high-injury network or a locally adopted high-injury network, and whether a project is addressing an identified safety issue with proven safety countermeasures.

Studies that have been completed or are being undertaken by DRCOG or state and local agencies can be viewed in the webmap.

The studies include:

• Colfax BRT Next: Interstate 225 to E-470 (ongoing).
• Sheridan Corridor Safety Study (completed in 2026).
• Pecos Corridor Study (completed in 2026).
• Alameda Avenue Corridor Planning Study (completed in 2024).
• South Boulder Road Study (completed in 2024).

Examples of ongoing or recently completed projects on the high-injury network that were funded, in part, with federal funding allocated by DRCOG:

• Federal Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit: Englewood Station to Wagon Road Park-n-Ride (status: design).
• 30th Street Complete Streets: Colorado Highway 119 to Colorado Highway 7 (status: design).
• Colorado Highway 52 Intersection Safety Improvements (status: design).
• East Colfax Bus Rapid Transit (status: construction).
• West Colfax Safety Improvements: Teller to Sheridan (status: construction).
• Baseline Multimodal Improvements: 30th to Foothills (status: completed in 2025).
• Broadway Complete Streets Improvements: Hampden to Belleview (status: completed in 2025).