New Views, Brews For Winter Park Express Ski Train
December 20, 2018 By Laura Phillips/DENVER (CBS4) https://cbsdenver.files.wordpress.co...pg?w=735&h=400 https://cbsdenver.files.wordpress.co...pg?w=420&h=560 Images credit: Winter Park Express via CBS4 Rumor has it the inaugural trip will be promoted as: "bunt at the bar" and during the season you can expect to hear people proclaim: "Don't bypass bunt's bar" (Say that fast 10X) |
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The Good News is
that Denver is proceeding with planning the East Colfax BRT. This includes planning the station locations and conceptual design of station 'areas.' The Bad News is that Denver is planning on planning for two more years. https://media1.tenor.com/images/8bc7...itemid=5660983 Source |
There was an article in the latest 'Front Porch NE' that detailed the familiar issues with the A Line. However, one new piece of information (at least to me) caught my eye:
“Starting in January, we are doubling capacity on the University of Colorado A Line. This means we are adding cars to each train, so what previously had been two-car trains will become four-car trains." - https://frontporchne.com/article/ne-news-updates-13/ It looks like the A Line might start looking more and more like a big city train sooner than I thought. Sounds like ridership has been enough to justify the additional cars. |
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Portland is going through the process of 'standardizing' protected bike lanes. Quote:
The dangers of protected bike lanes December 21, 2017 By Philip Montoro Quote:
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Transportation and Transit for 2019 and Beyond
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019...y=90&auto=webp Los Angeles’s Metro plans to build 100 new miles of rail — essentially doubling the system, which first opened in 1990.Credit: Monica Almeida/The New York Times Why the West Coast Is Suddenly Beating the East Coast on Transportation Jan. 1, 2019 By Emma G. Fitzsimmons/NYT Quote:
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Even compared to Portland my suggested $15.5 billion metro transportation/transit plan seems modest by comparison. Although Denver/RTD love to "Slow Jam" their planning, RTD should finish their BRT study by the summer of 2019 and Denver Moves downtown transit analysis is on a similar path. As RTD goes about reimagining their strategies along with the City of Denver's planning, 2019 would be a good time to start floating specific proposals. |
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If the G line opens, and ridership there significantly exceeds expectations, there might be more of a case to make for conjuring up the funds to get the B line to Boulder and Longmont. |
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That said where it's easy to paint a bike lane on existing roads I figure 'no harm, no foul.' They have these lanes all over Phoenix - but nice wide roads made this easy to do. To what extent better, protected bike lanes should be adopted in and around downtown I'll assume that it's a good idea -- within reason. I wouldn't want to discourage biking to work and doing so safely is a reasonable expectation -- within reason. Certainly I've always been a Big Fan of recreational biking and fully support continuing improvements on the High Line Canal Trail. |
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1. Proximity to destinations. - aka density. If the city is dense enough, greater numbers of folks can be within that magical 0-3 mile range where biking works best and attracts more than just the "spandex warriors". 2. Terrain - Is it super hilly (i.e. SF)? If so, getting grandma to hop on a bike is a non-starter. 3. Other transportation options available. - If transit works really well, it might be cheaper/faster/easier to hop on a bus or train even to jump over 8 blocks...especially on crap-weather days, reducing the potential numbers of folks who would bike. |
Those are some surprisingly large drops and leaps. 20% plus drops in the Bay and Seattle, but 20% growth in Philly and Long Beach? 50% drop in Tampa (though as a former Tampa resident, that may mean they went from four bike commuters to two). I’m suspicious of this data. One thing I could see having a large effect on bike commuter share is scooters replacing short bike commutes, but that doesn’t explain all of the volatility.
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Yeah anything with that huge a change in that short a time, for seemingly no reason, raises questions about methodology.
It wouldn't surprise me if scooters have displaced a noticable number of bike trips, but anybody should be skeptical of numbers like those. Including the ones like Philly that are way up. |
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It's also why I quoted cities where the change from 2011 thru 2017 was given. |
I assume it's about small sample size. All anecdotal signs point to bike trips being on a continued gradual increase.
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I didn't try to dig into either the survey or the League of American Bicyclists assessment. In sports like the NBA or MLB drawing conclusions from half dozen or even 10 games is definitely too sss but I'm not aware of how the census bureau conducts their surveys. I wouldn't automatically assume the sample size is faulty though. It's possible given the modest percentage of bike commuters a survey for one year is vulnerable to more variance. For commuter breakouts into downtown Denver afaik they utilize a volunteer survey which means if you want to participate you click on the site. Is that a sss or is it even representative of what a scientific poll would show? I assume it's a guestimate which is better than nothing but might skew to those who are more passionate about being counted. |
Just a simple rule: most folks won't bike in the rain or snow but once the sun is out and the rain has passed or snow is gone it's a different story...
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Speaking of a small sample size
https://www.denvergov.org/content/de...381.high.3.jpg Photo courtesy City of Denver But... if you're a sharp-eyed observer you can see two bikes chained up on the sidewalk so one could reasonably deduce that at least those two bikes likely used the protected lane at some point. It's also easy to observe that it's a warm weather season day. It's amazing what one can observe with a sharp eye. |
Chariot shuts down: https://denver.streetsblog.org/2019/...HEN1xC-56-7_Kg
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