'It's not going to help my father, but it could help other folks.'
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"Bob's passing is directly a result of a bad policy that the city made," says Dave Mahler, a longtime friend of Paolini's."Bob would still be here but for the bike lane. ... He never recovered after that first fall. He was so unstable at that point. It's like he had no strength left in him at all." The city has agreed to remove four of the rubber bumpers from the bike lane — the bumpers that Paolini tripped on — for the parking spaces in front of the Windsor that act as loading zones, says Nancy Kuhn, spokesperson for Denver's Department of Transportation & Infrastructure. The three white posts that line the bike lane will remain in place.
Before Paolini's death, in response to complaints, the city designated two parking spaces in front of the Windsor as loading zones where cars can stop to pick up or drop off residents — but the bike lane still separates the loading zone from the curb, and the posts and bumpers are still in place. However, there will soon be one less hurdle for residents to navigate.
Kuhn said in February that the city allowed a"non-standard design" for the bike lane outside of Sunset Towers because its loading zone receives more than two dozen pick-ups/drop-offs every day from RTD's accessibility and senior ride services, each of which lasts several minutes. The same situation doesn't apply to the Windsor, whose senior residents say they primarily rely on family, friends and ride-sharing apps to get around.
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