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This week on Inside Boulder News: Grow with Google, Safe Streets Report and CU Move-in Day

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This week on inside boulder news, governor jared Polis made a stop at boulders main library. For this special event, the total number of crashes in Boulder is growing, find out what the city is doing to reduce this number and it's back to school for CU buffs.

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Welcome to inside building news your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Jonathan Daniel. Every year the city conducts a traffic crash analysis to better understand where crashes occur in the city and who in the community is being affected. The most it's called the safe streets report and staff released it earlier this month. The city's recently released 2019 safe streets report identifies the most common collisions in Boulder, discusses the behaviors that caused them and helped staff to pinpoint the top collision locations as well as develop countermeasures for them. A.

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Goal with the safety report and vision, zero is to eliminate crashes that result in serious injury and then make our streets feel safer, more comfortable when moving about and making sure our data is transparent and that everyone has access to it. The.

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Report analyzed crashes that happen from 2009 to 2017. Here staff are able to identify the five types of crashes that are most likely to cause severe injury, distracted.

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And impaired left-turning vehicles and cyclists and pedestrians are more likely to be severely injured, but they are involved in a crash. The.

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Study also identified 18 to 24-year olds as the most likely age demographic to be involved in the crash. Other notable facts. The report includes, is a detailed vision, 0 action plan with 50 specific actions that will be conducted over the next three years. A.

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Lot of our mitigation efforts go to looking at engineering solutions for intersections, along with education and enforcement at the intersections to the.

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Intended outcomes of this action plan include lowering speed limits through design changes on some roadways and reduced beating overall, among others, to take a look at the full, safe Street report. Please visit Boulder transportation nets.

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Colorado Governor Jerry Poulos made a stop this week at boulders main library dozens gathered Wednesday morning as governor Poulos addressed participants at the girl with Google events. Girl with Google is bringing free digital workshops and one-on-one coaching to select libraries in Colorado, boulders min library being one of them. The registration for most workshops is full. There are still a few spots open for walk-in participants. At the event, Google launched their google.org Colorado impact challenge where five local nonprofits will receive a cash prize from the company plus technical training from Google.

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Our information can be found on Boulder, Library, org boulders home to dozens of festivals each year, but few bring participants together from around the world like the Z Jaipur Literature Festival, more than 50 authors from across the globe will gather at boulders main library from September 21st to the 22nd and an event. This big wouldn't be possible. With the help of volunteers. The Jaipur Literature Festival is described as the greatest literary show on earth from author talks, panel discussion to music culture and, of course, literature.

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This Literature Festival is one of the many big events Boulder hosts in order to make this free festival possible volunteers play a critical role all throughout the festival. That's why the Boulder Public Library is looking for 300 volunteers to provide festival, support at this year's event. There are 19 different volunteer roles such as asurs event, photographers book, signing helpers and much more time. Commitment ranges from two to eight hours, so.

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If you're interested in volunteering and recommend you go to you neither go to the Boulder Public Library website and look for the volunteer web page there or you can also search for County in Boulder. That's our new library volunteer portal. The deadline for signing up would be Sunday, September 15. It's.

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Back to school, for CU Boulder, as douses of students filled up Cu builder's campus this week for their annual move in almost 6,000 rooms were inspected for moving as students waited anxiously more than 5,000 freshman and 32,000 degree-seeking students start classes. This upcoming Monday, our twenty-sixth women week, was through the 22nd.

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Some students also got to move into the university's new residence hall, Williams Village East, which runs on solar panels and sensors to reduce energy consumption on a/c and heating, more than 1600 volunteers help students get situated as they prepared for the first day of school.

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They brought you the Creekside concert series earlier this month now the parks in creation department invites the community to enjoy a Creekside moving the park on Friday September 6th during the city for a free movie showing under the stars with live music, food, vendors and local craft beer. All movies are free and open to the public. Food and beer service will begin at 5:30, with music playing from 5 to 7 p.m. the movie will start at dusk, so make sure to bring a blanket.

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The September 6th movie will be the fan favorite Back to the Future.

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