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bunt_q · #**3521** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 3:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

Very cool, did you guys just get this started?

I think it's been going for a month or two now. It's being spearheaded mostly by folks from the city at the moment. I got involved by going to the wrong meeting

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It's got a lot of potential, and the more folks we get involved, the better.

wong21fr · #**3522** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 4:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by bunt_q

I think it's been going for a month or two now. It's being spearheaded mostly by folks from the city at the moment. I got involved by going to the wrong meeting

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It's got a lot of potential, and the more folks we get involved, the better.

I'd definitely be interested in attending one of the meetings and seeing what the ideas are and who is involved. I'm assuming the next one is the bike ride at REI in late June?

bunt_q · #**3523** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 4:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

I'd definitely be interested in attending one of the meetings and seeing what the ideas are and who is involved. I'm assuming the next one is the bike ride at REI in late June?

Yeah, although there is still talk of a happy hour for June, which would be before. We'll know more by tomorrow, so keep an eye on the page (or I can let you know too).

bcp · #**3524** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 5:13 PM**

ooooh...nice...need to get involved with that...we need more than 5pts getting transit attention / streetcar attention! (ok, and colfax)

PLANSIT · #**3525** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 6:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Strange Meat

I'm sure someone mentioned this, and, I didn't snap a photo, but did anybody else see the bus getting press at the 16th/Market station yesterday? It looked like the new models that RTD is going to use, and it was an extended bus (ala the 15L, 16L, etc), without any RTD colorway. It was parked on the south side of the pedestrian island, and there was a camera man doing a walkthrough.

RTD BRT model

PLANSIT · #**3526** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 7:09 PM**

It would be awesome for some SSP folks to be there.

Strange Meat · #**3527** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 7:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by PLANSIT

RTD BRT model

Bingo!

bunt_q · #**3528** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 7:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by PLANSIT

It would be awesome for some SSP folks to be there.

Just whatever you do, don't admit this is where you first heard about it.

Strange Meat · #**3529** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 8:31 PM**

So. Transit thread... Anyone do the Cruiser Ride?

bunt_q · #**3530** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 10:48 PM**

Ask and ye shall receive. Happy hour, next Thursday at the Pour House. Hope to see some of you guys there.

wong21fr · #**3531** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 10:50 PM**

4:30PM on a Thursday? Typical government workers getting out early.

bunt_q · #**3532** Posted **Jun 6, 2012, 11:01 PM**

Happy hour time. 5:30-ish... I doubt I'll make it before 6.

Cirrus · #**3533** Posted **Jun 7, 2012, 3:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by PLANSIT

RTD BRT model

Oh hey, we have those. They're good buses.

DenverInfill · #**3534** Posted **Jun 7, 2012, 12:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pip111

Hey all, was just reading an article on Westword about Ken's tour of Union Station that I sadly missed.

Anyway, this quote stuck out at me:

Ken, do we have to do the tour to get your thoughts on this, or will you explain a little bit more here since Westword's article doesn't delve into this at all?

Thanks!

It was nothing really. It was at the end of the tour and we were chatting about other transit news and how RTD may convert the Welton light rail line to street car, and then someone asked about a subway and I said something like how someday in the future if both the circulator and mall shuttle were at capacity we may have to look at a subway under 15th or 16th between Union Station and Civic Center.

DenverInfill · #**3535** Posted **Jun 7, 2012, 12:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Brainpathology

What's "commuter light rail"?

Just a confused author. Another example of how dumb it is for RTD to not give us a solid branding name for their rail transit. Clearly, "the Ride" is the lamest brand in the history of brands, since no one calls it that. Therefore, we have probably a majority of people in Denver who think that all trains are "light rail", giving us people in the media saying stuff like "the light rail line under construction to the airport."

We'd be all better off if RTD just branded their entire suite of services as Metro.

Brainpathology · #**3536** Posted **Jun 7, 2012, 12:50 PM**

There are so many different kinds of rail and subway and street car etc I thought I missed something. I knew it wasn't pure 'light rail' but thought there might be some sort of newfangled mode with the new 'commuter light rail' mode. Thanks!

bunt_q · #**3537** Posted **Jun 7, 2012, 1:23 PM**

The airport line will be the coal-fired electric multiple unit heavier-than-heavy commuter light rail Ride.

If somebody can come up with a clever Denver/Colorado-related acronym or other moniker for RTD that doesn't —, I am 99% certain it would stick, they'd be everyone's hero, and probably would make the history books too.

Cirrus · #**3538** Posted **Jun 7, 2012, 1:52 PM**

"Commuter light rail" is sort of a thing that exists. Nobody calls it that, but it is kind of a thing. We have one example in the US: The NJ RiverLine, between Trenton and Camden.

I'll dig up some pics in a few minutes.

Cirrus · #**3539** Posted **Jun 7, 2012, 2:32 PM**

NJ RiverLine

It's basically DMU that looks more like light rail than commuter rail. In Trenton and Camden it runs on-street like light rail (sometimes even in mixed traffic!), but in between it runs on active freight tracks.

So diesel power, on-street mixing with cars in cities, and on freight tracks mixing with freight trains between.

from Jarrett Stewart on flickr

from John Barnes on flickr

Pip111 · #**3540** Posted **Jun 7, 2012, 4:54 PM**

Thanks, Ken...was wondering if you knew about considerations in place for the future or if it was speculation.