About Safe Streets Co.

Safe Streets Co. tracks Colorado legislation that makes streets safer for people — especially kids walking and biking to school, neighbors crossing the road, and anyone moving outside a car.

Why this exists

State legislatures move fast. By the time a bill is on the calendar for a hearing, supporters often have less than a week to organize testimony. Most people have never testified before, don't know how the signup portal works, and don't know what to write. The result: committees hear from a small set of regulars while the broader supportive public stays quiet.

This site closes that gap for one specific cause: traffic-safety legislation in Colorado. For each bill we track, we publish:

• What the bill does, in plain language
• When the next hearing is — and how to sign up to testify
• Draft testimony language for different audiences (parents, organizers, general supporters)
• An FAQ sourced from the bill's actual advocates, not invented

Scope

Currently: Colorado state legislation. Eventually: more states, possibly city-level work too. The URL structure (/bills/co/<bill>/) is built to expand.

Currently: school-zone safety, slower-speed legislation, traffic calming. Long term: any state-level bill that makes a street safer for someone without a steering wheel.

How it's built

A static Eleventy site. Content lives as markdown files with structured frontmatter — adding a new bill is one new file. No JavaScript framework, no build pipeline beyond eleventy, no analytics, no forms. The repo is open source on GitHub.

Who's behind it

Brown Bike Bus organizers and friends. This is volunteer work; the site is a side effect of advocacy, not a product.