[glowrock]

Originally Posted by bunt_q

You have family that uses the bus down there? Or do they want a bus to get other people off the road? Haha, reminds me of the classic old Onion article - Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others (http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-98-percent-of-us-commuters-favor-public-tra,1434/)

I guess I'm confused where you're talking about, east or west metro. Belleview isn't even a through street, at least not all the way from west to east. On the west side of the metro (where Hampden is a freeway), there's no east-west traffic problem at all. And Belleview only runs from Wadsworth to C-470... that can't be what you're talking about. Between Santa Fe and the Tech Center (Cherry Creek Res) is what I assume you're talking about (but Bowles doesn't go through there). And Belleview from there skirts Cherry Hills Village, which is probably the lowest density (and richest) part of the whole metro, so really the worst possible place you could put good bus service. You drive Belleview there, and you see horses, haha. Traffic may be relatively bad on Hampden there east-west, where it stops being a highway between Santa Fe and I-25. But it's not a good bus corridor either, and you'd have to go up to Evans to find an alternative... south of there, nothing goes through. Maybe a Downtown Littleton to Arapahoe jog?

Southeast Aurora might be an interesting improves bus corridor too, probably with some additional park-n-rides. From E-470 up Smoky Hill and E. Hampden (or Quincy), both feeding into Nine Mile?

Absolutely, yes! Especially in the case of Smoky Hill!

Aaron (Glowrock)