There appeared to be *slightly* more traffic in Denver today than a month ago
Denver’s stay-at-home order is very much still intact. Colorado’s isn’t.
Rush hour traffic was super light on Broadway at 15th on Monday, April 27, 2020, in downtown Denver.
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While Denver continues to hunker down through at least May 8, the last day of the city’s stay-at-home orders, Colorado’s “safer-at-home” started today. They’re meant to ease the state out of the strict guidelines Denver, Colorado’s largest city and a hot spot of COVID-19, is still abiding by to avoid spreading the disease caused by the new coronavirus. In places not Denver, life will be a little more normal.
So, yes, technically Denverites should still be at home, leaving only for essentials. But we still wondered what this morning’s traffic situation would be like.
CPR visuals editor Hart Van Denburg returned to two typically busy roads in Denver this morning, more than a month after he captured them on March 23, the first day of the city’s stay-at-home order.
A non-existent morning rush hour on Colfax, viewed from Federal Boulevard. The morning after Gov. Jared Polis advised people to stay home, Colfax Avenue from Bennet on up into the mountains where it becomes Hwy 40, was a ghost of its normal self — although some facets of life carried on as usual, Monday, March 23, 2020.
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Rush hour on Colfax Avenue heading into Denver felt more like an early Sunday morning on Monday, April 27, 2020, as the state began its first day of “safer-at-home” during the coronavirus outbreak.
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A nearly deserted Broadway where it crosses 14th Avenue in Denver, Monday morning March 23, 2020, the day after Gov. Jared Polis advised people to stay home during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Rush hour traffic was super light on Broadway at 15th on Monday, April 27, 2020, in downtown Denver.
Hart Van Denburg/CPR News
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