DENVER POLICE DEPARTMENT

Gerald R. Whitman, Chief of Police

The mission of the Denver Police Department is to deliver high quality public
safety services so all people may share a safe and healthy environment.
 

PRESS RELEASE
 
For Immediate Release
 

Date:         July 23, 2010

To:            All Denver Police Officers, Media, Denver City Council, and Denver
Community Associations.
Contact:   Sonny Jackson
Address:  Office of the Chief
                  1331 Cherokee St., Denver, CO 80204
Phone:     720-913-6534
Fax:           720-913-7021
We will let the media know on Monday exactly where we will meet on Tuesday morning. We will park the
media vehicles off the interstate and shuttle the photographer and reporters up to the enforcement area.
 
The Denver Police Department is holding a press conference on July 27, 2010, at 7:30 a.m. at I-
225 and DTC Boulevard to talk about an on-going traffic problem. The problem is gore lane
violations and illegal lane change violations. Drivers must abide by Section 54-203, Unlawful to
cross islands and gore areas, of the Denver Revised Municipal Code which prohibits drivers
from crossing islands or gore areas constructed or marked on streets or highways. Drivers
frequently cut across the solid white lines at this location to exit or merge onto the interstate.
Officers have observed these illegal lane changes and the violations are dangerous to both
the violator and other motorists. These types of violations are frustrating to the other
motorists who abide by the law and   wait to legally merge into their place on the road.  This type
of 'cutting in line " can lead to road rage incidents.
 
Denver Police Traffic Enforcement Officers will talk about the concerns of this law violation and
they will conduct traffic operations, targeting violators of this law.
 
 
 
Sonny Jackson