GLOBEVILLE,SWANSEA, ELYRIA (GSE) BEAR THE BURDEN FOR DENVER'S DEVELOPMENT

WE HAVE ALMOST 100 SIGNATURES ON PETITION . PLEASE POST TO FACEBOOK/EMAIL. ON OUR WAY TO 2000. :) ____________________________________________________________ EARTHJUSTICE , NATIONAL LAW FIRM, FILES CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT AGAINST COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (CDOT) ON BEHALF OF LATINO RESIDENTS OF GLOBEVILLE, SWANSEA AND ELYRIA Read entire complaint: http://tinyurl.com/zlypuk8 "The Elyria-Swansea neighborhood was initially severed by I-70 when it was constructed in the 1960s, before Congress enacted environmental laws that would have given the residents a voice in the decision and the opportunity to fully consider and mitigate the social, economic and environmental impacts of the freeway. The current effort to address I-70’s use and contribution to area transportation needs should not further the wrongs of the initial decision and the decades of significant adverse impacts in these neighborhoods. Instead, the STIP intensifies the existing impacts by committing CDOT to tripling the width of I-70 through the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood, where the population is 83.8% Latino. The proposed expansion would widen the freeway from 85 to 278 feet wide; destroy 54 homes and displace approximately 180 residents; exacerbate the already high levels of air pollution in Colorado’s most overburdenedneighborhood; and replace the Swansea Elementary School playground with “managed” toll lanes allowing drivers willing and able to pay a fee to use presumably less-congested lanes. Inthe short term, construction would disturb and expose Complainants to chemical-laden soils in an existing Superfund site and result in noise, congestion and other harmful impacts. Once again,Elyria-Swansea residents are being forced to bear the burdens of a project that inures to thebenefit of the rest of metro-Denver, but puts their health and community at risk." ________________________________________________________ WESTWORD ARTICLE ON DRAIANGE , SUPERFUND AND THE RIVER: http://tinyurl.com/hnnlna6 PLEASE SHARE ON FACEBOOK ETC. THIS PETITION WILL BE SHARED WITH THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. THEY WILL RECEIVE AUTO UPDATES FORM CHANGE.ORG.