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...following the example of Portland, cities like Denver or Dallas are building nothing else
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Originally Posted by CPVLIVE
To be clear the majority of Denver's FasTracks is EMU heavy rail. The East, Gold, and part of the Northwest are all EMU with the remainder of the NW being DMU at the moment.
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Exactly, that article is false to claim Denver is building nothing else but Light Rail. The East, North, Gold and part of the Northwest lines will be EMU Heavy Commuter Rail. And we're not talking about once an hour type commuter rail service, but more like 7.5 minute service in peak and 15 to 30 minute service in off peak. So it's high frequency, EMU heavy commuter rail. It's kind of like a hybrid halfway between metro heavy rail and traditional commuter rail -- a poor man's metro rail, if you will. Denver also did a similar thing with it's southeast corridor, 19.2 mile long Light Rail line, in that they made it dedicated ROW, grade separated (like a metro), high frequency/high ridership and long 4-car trains (long for LRT). Denver's SE LRT line is operated more like a metro than a typical LRT line.
There is also the BRT line from downtown Denver to downtown Boulder they are building and also the 41-mile traditional DMU commuter rail line from Denver to Boulder and Longmont. So to say Denver is building nothing else (than Light Rail), is by no means accurate.