Editing Denver (section)

===City streets===
{{Main|Street system of Denver}}
[[File:Colfaxatbroadway.JPG|thumb|upright|Colfax Avenue at Broadway, where the downtown street grid and the "normal" city grid meet. Colfax Avenue carries [[U.S. Route 40 in Colorado|U.S. Highway 40]] through Denver.]]

Most of Denver has a straightforward [[street grid]] oriented to the four [[cardinal direction]]s. Blocks are usually identified in hundreds from the median streets, identified as "00", which are Broadway (the east–west median, running north–south) and Ellsworth Avenue (the north–south median, running east–west). [[Colfax Avenue]], a major east–west artery through Denver, is 15 blocks (1500) north of the median. Avenues north of Ellsworth are numbered (with the exception of Colfax Avenue and several others, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd and Montview Blvd.), while avenues south of Ellsworth are named.

There is also an older downtown grid system that was designed to be parallel to the confluence of the [[South Platte River]] and [[Cherry Creek (Colorado)|Cherry Creek]]. Most of the streets downtown and in [[LoDo]] run northeast–southwest and northwest–southeast. This system has an unplanned benefit for snow removal; if the streets were in a normal N–S/E–W grid, only the N–S streets would receive sunlight. With the grid oriented to the diagonal directions, the NW–SE streets receive sunlight to melt snow in the morning and the NE–SW streets receive it in the afternoon. This idea was from Henry Brown the founder of the [[Brown Palace Hotel (Denver, Colorado)|Brown Palace Hotel]]. There is now a plaque across the street from the [[Brown Palace Hotel (Denver, Colorado)|Brown Palace Hotel]] that honors this idea. The NW–SE streets are numbered, while the NE–SW streets are named. The named streets start at the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Broadway with the block-long Cheyenne Place. The numbered streets start underneath the Colfax and I-25 viaducts. There are 27 named and 44 numbered streets on this grid. There are also a few vestiges of the old grid system in the normal grid, such as Park Avenue, Morrison Road, and Speer Boulevard. Larimer Street, named after [[William Larimer Jr.]], the founder of Denver, which is in the heart of [[LoDo]], is the oldest street in Denver.
[[File:Denver skyline from Speer Blvd near I-25, April 2019.jpg|alt=|thumb|upright=1.35|Speer Boulevard runs north–south through downtown Denver.]]
All roads in the downtown grid system are streets (e.g., [[16th Street Mall|16th Street]], Stout Street), except for the five NE–SW roads nearest the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Broadway: Cheyenne Place, Cleveland Place, Court Place, Tremont Place and Glenarm Place. Roads outside that system that travel east–west are designated "avenues" and those that travel north–south are designated "streets" (e.g., Colfax Avenue, Lincoln Street). Boulevards are higher capacity streets and travel any direction (more commonly north and south). Smaller roads are sometimes referred to as places, drives (though not all drives are smaller capacity roads; some are major thoroughfares), or courts. Most streets outside the area between Broadway and Colorado Boulevard are organized alphabetically from the city's center.

East of Colorado Boulevard, the naming convention of streets takes on a predictable pattern of going through the alphabet by using each letter twice (i.e. AA, BB, CC, DD, through YY – there is no Z). The first street is almost always named after a plant or fruit, the second street is almost always named after a foreign place or location. For example, Jersey Street / Jasmine Street, Quebec Street / Quince Street, and Syracuse Street / Spruce Street. Inexplicably, the letter Y only has one street (Yosemite), and there is no Z.   This double-alphabet naming convention continues in some form into Aurora, Colorado.

Some Denver streets have [[bicycle lanes]], leaving a patchwork of disjointed routes throughout the city. There are over {{convert|850|mi|km}}<ref name="denver.org">{{cite web |title=Denver's 850 Miles of Off-Road Bike Trails |url=http://www.denver.org/metro/features/bike-trails |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821123833/http://denver.org/metro/features/bike-trails |archive-date=August 21, 2008 |publisher=Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau |access-date=February 3, 2016}}</ref> of paved, off-road, bike paths in Denver parks and along bodies of water, like Cherry Creek and the South Platte. This allows for a significant portion of Denver's population to be bicycle commuters and has led to Denver being known as a bicycle-friendly city.<ref name="League of American Bicylistsl">{{cite web |title=Bicycle Friendly Communities: Denver |url=http://www.bicyclefriendlycommunity.org/Images/bfc_pdf_pages/denver.pdf |date=2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822182922/http://www.bicyclefriendlycommunity.org/Images/bfc_pdf_pages/denver.pdf |archive-date=August 22, 2007 |publisher=[[League of American Bicyclists]] |access-date=February 3, 2016}}</ref> Some residents strongly oppose bike lanes, which has caused some plans to be watered down or nixed. The review process for one bike line on Broadway will last over a year before city council members will make a decision. In addition to the many bike paths, Denver launched B-Cycle&nbsp;– a citywide bicycle sharing program&nbsp;– in late April 2010. The B-Cycle network was the largest in the United States at the time of its launch, boasting 400 bicycles.<ref name="Cnet">{{cite web |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20003054-1.html |title=B-cycle bike sharing to be the largest in U.S. |publisher=CNET |access-date=April 21, 2010 |archive-date=April 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429010944/http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20003054-1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The [[Wheel clamp|Denver Boot]], a car-disabling device, was first used in Denver.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://archive.org/details/originofeveryday0000acto |url-access= registration |quote= origin of Denver Boot. |publisher=Sterling Publishing |page=[https://archive.org/details/originofeveryday0000acto/page/309 309] |year=2006 |title=Origin of Everyday Things |first1=Johnny |last1=Acton |first2=Tania |last2=Adams |first3=Matt |last3=Packer | isbn= 978-1-4027-4302-3 |access-date=March 21, 2011}}</ref>