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Originally Posted by RyanD
Oh mall shuttles. While attended Transit Alliance, Nate from RTD said that if you were to take the shuttles away from 16th Street Mall, it would be a nightmare getting reliable service on the 15/17th street corridors because of traffic (you'd need a dedicated lane) and that the mall would die because of what the mall is: a transit corridor. I was actually the one who asked the question about what he / RTD thinks about taking the shuttles off, and he just laughed it away basically saying it's not gonna happen.
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If RTD opposes it then I'm even more sure it's a good idea
I like the compromise of dedicating a lane on 15th to the shuttle and running them in a loop on 16th/15th. I'd really just like to accomplish two things on 16th First open up the sidewalks for more uses (like patio's), right now the mall is more walking path than destination (which is admittedly useful in its own right).
The bigger one: I'd like to provide more separation between pedestrians and the busses. When you look at the Downtown Partnership data you see that people don't feel real safe on the mall. That mostly falls on the homeless, but I think that underneath that the busses are the real culprit. People are sort of constantly interacting with those giant things at a real up close and personal level and it just makes the whole thing feel rather unsafe. It's easy to fall into pedestrian only mode only to be rudely woken up by a bus barreling towards you.
Although we're in danger of rehashing this conversation for the 1000th time so I'll just leave it there
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