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There was some fairly big transit news this week that I haven't seen mentioned yet. Obviously the southeast rail expansion isn't 'news', but glad to see it's opening.
Item 1: 2.3-mile extension of RTD Southeast Rail Line opens Friday https://kdvr.com/2019/05/17/2-3-mile...-opens-friday/ Item 2: Southwest Airlines announces plans to construct maintenance hangar at DIA https://www.thedenverchannel.com/mon...-hangar-at-dia Southwest's announcement is a $100 investment that will house three 737 planes and is the first maintenance facility that Southwest has constructed at DIA. |
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If the rumors are true and the B line can be extended as a peak service to Westminster, Broomfield, Lousville, and Longmont (the city that really is getting the shaft in all of this) for <$250M than RTD should do that as quickly as possible and than slow-walk any other kind of improvements to the B Line for another 30 years while focusing on BRT along the Diagonal Highway. Promise met w/o shelling out an exorbitant amount of cash. |
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The idea was to run diesel engine pulled trains along BNSF tracks. Utah has been successful in creating the same with a low capital cost. So here's your assignment Be just like John Denver and jump on a jet plane to Omaha and have a man-to-man chat with Warren Buffet. Tell him if he doesn't solve this problem yesterday he'll never be welcome in Boulder ever again. That should solve the problem. I'm pulling for ya, you can make this happen; Good Luck. |
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Props to Lone Tree (and DougCo) for their buy-in which enabled RTD to win yet one more nice FTA grant while the opportunity still existed. Now if they could just figure a method, like stopping at every other station, to speed these choo choo's along quicker? Quote:
Then add into the equation the Great Recession and DIA was dealing with quite a downdraft. Fortunately SW Air had already established their presence and still grew if more slowly than planned as a result. Frontier, though, in changing business models in favor of adding more hubs cut their DIA flights nearly in half. Ancient history now knowing airline traffic later started taking off like a rocket ship. SW kept growing. Frontier which had been successful in creating other hubs came back to rapidly re-growing their presence in Denver. Meanwhile, Airports which had delayed expansion previously now needed to grow at costs that were 3X what DIA had already accomplished. Now SW has found that the readily available land needed for their new facilities is ideal for locating in Denver. Impressive how far they've come. |
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2017 107,125 -719 -0.67% 2016 107,844 382 0.36% 2015 107,462 2,181 2.07% 2014 105,281 1,674 1.62% 2013 103,607 1,554 1.52% 2012 102,053 1,004 0.99% 2011 101,049 2,279 2.31% 2010 98,770 4,097 0.42% 2000 94,673 11,361 1.29% 1990 83,312 6,627 0.83% http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-...er-population/ Hell, the nearby cities will probably pass it in population in 10-20 years. Boulder 109,557 Longmont 96,068 Loveland 81,895 Broomfield 71,461 http://worldpopulationreview.com/sta...lation/cities/ This is another fun one, especially the city of Boulder's share of the county population. https://i.imgur.com/3gtqQjw.png https://www-static.bouldercolorado.g...1307021541.pdf |
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(I'm just adding to my point above and not countering anything you said.) |
This is an interesting article regarding Boulder's growth limits (although I suspect it's already been brought up here before; if so I apologize):
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I may have said this before, but I feel like the folks who are the most upset about not having a train go to Boulder are people that would rarely use it. The train would hit Boulder Junction Depot near the Google campus, then shoot north to Longmont, completely missing the campus and downtown. So, folks in Lafayette/Louisville would have to drive to a park-n-ride, hop on a train, get into town, then transfer to a local bus to get to their final destination.
Or...... they could just drive to a park-n-ride on 36, wait a couple minutes for a FF bus, and get off right next to campus/downtown and walk to their final destinations. It's also worth noting the FF4 goes to Boulder Junction Depot already and has a stop right in front of the Google Campus. There's also the FF6, which picks up people in the business park area on the east side of town near Upslope. As someone that commutes from Denver to Boulder, I couldn't see the train impacting my commuting patterns that much. In fact, it's entirely possible the FF2 would still take less time to get into Boulder compared to the train. From the moment I walk on to when I get off at the Table Mesa park-n-ride, it's about 30 minutes. I would expect the train to take longer than that given it has more stops than the FF2. Everyone in Boulder loves to complain about not having a train until you start digging down into the cost analysis and begin to agree with why RTD didn't put their eggs into that basket. Now, if there's a low-cost alternative where a train runs a few times during rush hour, then sure, go for it. But, I am not in favor of dumping over a billion dollars just to appease some whiny Boulderites. |
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Dems/K.C Becker have a solid plan to ask voters next year to allow the state to keep any TABOR related $'s and divide them among education and CDOT/transportation instead of returning these $'s to taxpayers. The amounts could be nominal or significant depending... In a lead up to the election CDOT will be doing a broad outreach to the public for feedback. It's pretty open-ended enabling citizens to express whatever is important to them with respect to transportation. This is a smart move although there's always the possibility that 'special interests' will try to hijack the process. Not sure who designed CDOT's web page; seems a little convoluted but it's mostly functional. Quote:
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Reality is that most everyday Americans don't have the time to obsess over every silly or stupid thing that's tweeted. They have lives to lead and kids that need this, that and so on. The majority mostly care about the big picture and their own personal circumstances. Am I better or worse off today than 4 years ago? That's the challenge for Dems. What's your plan for my family's needs; don't tell me about all your silly complaints. Even when Trump is wrong the visual is that he 'puts America first' and why should voters dislike that? Not interested in getting into specific issues; I'm merely trying to reflect the big picture as seen through the eyes of the body politic. |
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My current 2020 ballot preferences are: Biden>Trump Harris>Trump Trump>Bernie Trump>Warren Trump>Pete B (if only because he’s 12 years old and should have a real job in politics once first). Trump>Beto (I want to vote for winners). If that makes me an unintelligent bigot, so be it; at least I’m not a cyclist! |
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In the first version, the most powerful nation on earth gets swept up in a wave of ethnic and religious nationalism and elects a demagogue who espouses deranged conspiracy theories and can't speak in complete sentences without the use of a teleprompter. The world has trouble sleeping at night knowing he has the launch codes. In the second version, the most powerful nation on earth gets swept up in a wave of unicorns and rainbows and elects an impractically liberal politician who fails to deliver on any of his unrealistic promises. The world is slightly more annoyed by America's politics than usual. America may not be America anymore, but it's still America enough that you can't get elected president going around calling yourself a socialist. We don't have to worry about Bernie. Damn, I wish you wouldn't have brought up Trump and I wish I had not taken the bait, because this conversation can't go anywhere good. It's destined to end up like the comments section of a news article. I quit, lol. |
If he runs I may vote for Justin Amash, R Mich.
It probably wouldn't be appropriate to vote for John McCain again so I gotta come up with somebody. Kamala does impress. Mark June 26th and 27th on your calendar. |
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