The planned Auburn Park station in the Auburn-Gresham community has been in the works for over a decade, and advocacy for it by local residents has gone on even longer than that.
If a CDOT proposal for a road diet with protected bike lanes hadn't been blocked by local drivers led by an aldermanic candidate, Travers might still be alive.
Thankfully, nowadays space for social distancing is not such an urgent need. But many residents appreciated the Slow Streets, so CDOT has brought back some of them, and is piloting a couple new ones.