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  • 3 injured in overnight Denver crashes, police say

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    Two motorists and a pedestrian were injured in Sunday night crashes across Denver, police said.

    The Denver Police Department posted about the first crash involving a car and a pedestrian at S. Federal Boulevard and W. Florida Avenue, on the edge of the city’s Mar Lee and Ruby Hill neighborhoods, at 7:40 p.m. Sunday.

    Paramedics took the pedestrian to the hospital with serious injuries, police said. Additional information about the crash, including whether the pedestrian was in a crosswalk, was not immediately available Monday morning.

    The second crash involved three drivers near S. Forest Street and Leetsdale Drive in Denver’s Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood, about 9 miles east of the first crash, police said at 7:47 p.m. Sunday.

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  • Denver set to expand popular microtransit service to southwest neighborhoods

    Denver set to expand popular microtransit service to southwest neighborhoods

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    A Denver Connector car in Montbello. March 2, 2023.

    Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite

    Denver’s free on-demand ride program is poised to expand into southwest neighborhoods later this year.

    The “Denver Connector” microtransit service has proven popular since the city launched it in Montbello in 2021. The city has been expanding it ever since — first to Gateway, then to Globevile and Elyria-Swansea.

    On Tuesday, a City Council committee approved a $6 million. three-year contract that would fund another expansion of the program. Potential new neighborhoods include Villa Park, Barnum, Westwood and Ruby Hill. 

    “With the west Denver launch to begin with the execution of this agreement, the Connector Program moves out of a pilot phase and into maturity,” city staff wrote in a memo to the council committee.

    The contract still needs approval of the full City Council but the city’s own website already notes the expansion is expected to happen later this year.

    Residents can request free rides between 6 a.m and 8 p.m. by downloading the “Denver Connector” app or by calling (720) 905-4438.

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