DENVER | Transportation Thread - Page 353

bunt_q · #**7041** Posted **May 29, 2014, 12:22 PM**

The line must be drawn here! This far and no farther!

Brainpathology · #**7042** Posted **May 29, 2014, 12:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by bunt_q

The line must be drawn here! This far and no farther!

Two parallel lines! 22 feet apart! And 8 feet deep! give or take.. AND NO FURTHER!

seventwenty · #**7043** Posted **May 29, 2014, 8:00 PM**

They came for the parking spaces, and I did not speak. For I am not a parking space.

#AGENDA21isbadbros

PLANSIT · #**7044** Posted **May 29, 2014, 8:07 PM**

S. Pearl is next. Not B-cycle though.

RyanD · #**7045** Posted **May 29, 2014, 10:26 PM**

I want a B-Cycle station in Cory Merrill. How can I make this happen?

PLANSIT · #**7046** Posted **May 30, 2014, 2:21 AM**

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I want a B-Cycle station in Cory Merrill. How can I make this happen?

Pay $40k and sponsor it yourself.

The Dirt · #**7047** Posted **May 30, 2014, 3:00 AM**

If he gets another time lapse video done I'm sure we'll see a Ryan Dravitz Memorial B-Cycle station pop up. WIth enough funds, we'll see a 6 ft. 5 inch tall life sized bronze statute of Ryan holding a camera and a plaque reading "That's one hell of a pile driver."

bunt_q · #**7048** Posted **May 30, 2014, 4:50 AM**

Chicken and egg. Ryan can't timelapse without a bcycle station to get him downtown. But he can't afford the bcycle station until he hits it big timelapsing. Life truly isn't fair.

RyanD · #**7049** Posted **May 30, 2014, 5:49 AM**

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Chicken and egg. Ryan can't timelapse without a bcycle station to get him downtown. But he can't afford the bcycle station until he hits it big timelapsing. Life truly isn't fair.

What ever am I going to do...

seventwenty · #**7050** Posted **May 30, 2014, 9:26 AM**

dubya dubya dubya dot kickstarter dot com slash projects slash getryanadronefortimelapses

RyanD · #**7051** Posted **May 30, 2014, 2:40 PM**

As much as I love the kickstarter deal, what am I giving as a return to the people who fund my drone? Someone who gives me 200 dollars will want some kind of return investment. I could start a 501.c.3 donation account, so I don't have to feel guilty about a return investment.

wong21fr · #**7052** Posted **May 30, 2014, 3:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyanD

As much as I love the kickstarter deal, what am I giving as a return to the people who fund my drone? Someone who gives me 200 dollars will want some kind of return investment. I could start a 501.c.3 donation account, so I don't have to feel guilty about a return investment.

Access to all of your and Ken's development files? That would be worth something to a few of us.

bunt_q · #**7053** Posted **May 30, 2014, 3:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyanD

As much as I love the kickstarter deal, what am I giving as a return to the people who fund my drone? Someone who gives me 200 dollars will want some kind of return investment. I could start a 501.c.3 donation account, so I don't have to feel guilty about a return investment.

An equity stake in the DenverInfill empire, obviously. Ken will wake up one morning and realize he's been completely divested. But hey, you'll have a drone!

Wizened Variations · #**7054** Posted **May 31, 2014, 6:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyanD

As much as I love the kickstarter deal, what am I giving as a return to the people who fund my drone? Someone who gives me 200 dollars will want some kind of return investment. I could start a 501.c.3 donation account, so I don't have to feel guilty about a return investment.

The first $1,000,000 is the toughest. After that, live frugally and you can do whatever you want that is legal- of course the definition of "legal" changes in direct proportion to who money can buy. Consequently, with $1,000,000 and frugal living you will not influence anything, but you have your freedom.

Of course, when you get $1,000,000 and you are young, you like the idea of being worth $10,000,000. Now you can buy a nice 3 bedroom condo at a ski area within 500 meters of chairlift #1 (minimum down, and, put enough in a dedicated account to cover payments for a couple of years), a nice single family residence, and, an urban condo.

But, you are stuck with a problem: with $10,000,000 in "assets" you need political influence in order to bend "procedures" in order to participate in a big real estate or resource mineral play, as that $100,000,000 is reachable, and, you always had a secret desire for a moderately priced 80 foot ocean going yacht. However, you realize that there is far bigger money behind the lucrative real estate and resource plays, so you have to be content with profits made after the "first sale," i.e., you make you money after the hugely wealthy make theirs, by either developing an "asset" yourself or participating in some kind of pool.

By the time you get your first $100 million, you understand that the best fun is to make huge amounts of quick money competing with other very wealthy people. You have been yachting with other peers, having private galas with politicians, etc., but, now you know you can be "Kingfish" with your first billion.

But just one billion in assets makes you small fry in the world of political influence, so you need more....

Moral? Keep doing what you are doing, and, learn from it. You are building a great resume, which I have no doubt, at the right time will pay off for you.

Besides we like what you do.

bunt_q · #**7055** Posted **May 31, 2014, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wizened Variations

But, you are stuck with a problem: with $10,000,000 in "assets" you need political influence in order to bend "procedures" in order to participate in a big real estate or resource mineral play, as that $100,000,000 is reachable, and, you always had a secret desire for a moderately priced 80 foot ocean going yacht. However, you realize that there is far bigger money behind the lucrative real estate and resource plays, so you have to be content with profits made after the "first sale," i.e., you make you money after the hugely wealthy make theirs, by either developing an "asset" yourself or participating in some kind of pool.

You don't need to do anything to "bend" politics to go from $10 million to $100 million in a real estate play. The laws are already there for that. I think you overestimate how political real estate deals are. Most of them just happen, with barely any involvement of elected officials, let alone bribery and corruption.

Also, a billion dollars buys a lot of influence. There aren't that many billionaires out there.

PLANSIT · #**7056** Posted **Jun 2, 2014, 7:55 PM**

Not sure if we've seen these yet, but RTD has a bunch of renderings of stations on their Flickr account:

RTD Flickr Account

38th & Blake (East)

40th & Colorado (East)

Peoria (East)

40th & Airport (East)

41st & Fox (Gold)

Pecos Junction (Gold)

Federal Station (Gold)

Olde Town Arvada (Gold)

Arvada Ridge (Gold)

Ward Rd. (Gold)

Westminster (NW)

MORE RENDERINGS HERE

Cirrus · #**7057** Posted **Jun 2, 2014, 10:57 PM**

I fixed the hotlinks for you. It's possible using flickr, but you have to know how to do it, and ignore the supposed-to-be-helpful-but-actually-makes-it-harder "share" link.

PLANSIT · #**7058** Posted **Jun 2, 2014, 11:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

I fixed the hotlinks for you. It's possible using flickr, but you have to know how to do it, and ignore the supposed-to-be-helpful-but-actually-makes-it-harder "share" link.

Thanks!

bunt_q · #**7059** Posted **Jun 3, 2014, 2:16 PM**

Could those renderings possibly do a better job of conveying "middle of nowhere park-n-ride-based system?"

EDIT: Also, "60th & Sheridan - Arvada Gold Strike Station" ??? Could that possibly be any worse?

Wizened Variations · #**7060** Posted **Jun 3, 2014, 4:32 PM**

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Peoria (East)

IMO the key to the rapid growth of DIA line usage is the Peoria Station where the I-225 line terminates.

A) Where are the I-225 line tracks in the computer drawing? The over tracks bridge seems to transverse something, but this may be the freight line track to the north (compare to the Fastracks System Map flyover http://www.rtd-fastracks.com/systemmap.php )

B) This station will rapidly become the busiest- outside of DUS on the East Line. Are there going to be siding tracks, or at least room for future expansion for such tracks, available for high levels of locally generated west bound traffic?

(the DIA line and the I-225 line from Colfax to Peoria Station to DUS has a ~50 minute scheduled time. Too bad express capabilities has not been designed into the system from Peoria. Time from Peoria to Denver looks to be around 22 - 25 minutes for local trains. Non-stop to DUS would shave another 5 minutes- so the trip would be 17 - 20 minutes.

A park-n-rider could go either downtown or to DIA very quickly from the Peoria Station- to DIA in 10 - 15 minutes, and, downtown in 12 - 20 minutes

Add a 10 minute I-225 northbound ride time distance and a 5 minute cross platform transfer including wait time, and Colfax sourced commuters could get downtown in 35 minutes.)

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I wonder, too, how many DIA area employees would want to exit the DIA terminal? What percentage of the entire complex's employees actually access the terminal to get to their jobs? There is a huge amount of ancillary business development around the DIA terminal, including aircraft maintenance, auto leasing, parcel shippers, etc. What percent of the workers might choose to spend the extra time getting from the DIA terminal to one of the numerous employers south and east of the terminal? How can local shuttle buses serve the new DIA station, for those workers who might not want to walk a addition half-mile to a mile or more to get to work?

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Of course, as the Denver Post article this morning about the RTD Northwest Mobility Study shows, RTD studies almost always agree with what RTD is going to do anyway.

http://www.denverpost.com/News/ci_25883458/Study:-Bus-service-top-RTD-priority