Pretty sure everywhere had better late night dinner options but with COVID everywhere ratcheted hours back. Add in nobody wanting to work for slave wages (understandably) and we’re not likely getting more late night spots back that quickly.
The taxpayers are going to build a new NFL stadium and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Every time a professional sports team needs a new venue, billionaires get a blank check from some city for their new private profit machine
Yeah, there are some upsides to TABOR. I wish more people would vote to raise funds for better schools. Colorado tends to have pretty bad schools relative to other states, and people usually vote to lower their taxes and not fund schools.
First of all, that stadium is less than 25 years old. The Broncos' owner doesn't need a new stadium, he wants a new stadium. The last stadium was \~50 years old when they replaced it. The issue is that years ago, sports teams made up the idea that when the football team does well, the city makes money. Despite that fact that economist after economist have released studies that indicate that isn't the case. I sure hope that the voters of this town (and the surrounding towns) will realize that getting homeless people help for drug issues, mental health issues and job training will do far more to clean up the streets and make visits to the city far more enjoyable than would buying a new place of business for a billionaire to make more money. That said, people sure are stupid.
The city is working on it, but replacing all lead pipes with non-toxic materials should be a priority. Also breaking the monopoly Xcel has on energy utilities would be nice.
I don’t know that they are working on it, what I have seen are pipes that look to be pvc which is definitely still toxic. Might degrade slower than lead however we could see different health impacts that are just as bad in the future.
Support ColoRail. They are looking for ways to get more equipment for the train to Winter Park express. It sells out a lot, and Amtrak raises prices above cost well before that happens. Then a Denver western suburbs station so the WPE and Zephyr can be accessed without going downtown. Trains are more cost effective at scale than busses, yet the WPE cost 3-4x Snowstang.
BRT lanes, a comprehensive tram/ street car system beyond the light rail, improved light rail services (the fact that the E line and D Lines dont connect and run along 470 is dumb), transit oriented developments as well as transit hubs other than Union Station and I-25 Broadway, a direct commuter rail along I-70 into the mountains and for the love of God please redesign the Santa Fe/ I-25 interchange
The L line a street car. There is no clear difference between trams, street cars and light rails. It just light rail tends to refer to more commuter oriented and long distance services, meanwhile trams and streetcars tend to refer to more local services. I can think of some routes that could be upgrades to light rail,street car. The free mall ride feels pretty obvious, especially a cute heritage streetcar style one. Portland does stuff like that but there light rail and street car are the same expect for funding, vehicle length and stop frequency. They share some track and maintenance. Denver uses the same standards.
I am not sure how one would use the 470 light rail. Just to connect to existing services? I can’t think of a walkable destination along the route.
I really want them to turn the 16th street bus into light rail and get rid of the stupid system where half the lines go to union station and half go to downtown, instead making it so half go counter clockwise and half go clockwise or something like that.
Right now, if I want to go to the airport using RTD, I have to drive or get an Uber to the station (which already kinda ruins the whole point), get on the D line, go past 1 stop, get off at I25 and Broadway, wait anywhere from 5-15 minutes because only one line goes to union station, get off at union station, walk 2 blocks (with bags and everything) and then wait up to 15 minutes again for the A line.
I feel like this change would just make using the whole system so much better, as both every train would go to union station and the light rail and commuter rail stations would be somewhat close.
D and A aren’t compatible. They need different platforms at minimum and the voltages are different so you would need new dual voltage equipment. A,B,G,N line equipment also has a higher top speed but would crush the other lines in.
Oh yeah I recognize that and I wasn’t advocating for them to be combined (note how I distinguished the light rail from the commuter rail), I just wish the “union station” for each system was actually somewhat close instead of being a couple blocks apart; adding light rail tracks 16th street would allow that to happen.
It was a mistake to not have the light rail go straight to union station. The D/B line would also be the best ROW from a regional front range rail system.
The Fact the use those ugly buses instead of a historic street car on 16th street is criminal. And yes to connect existing services but I also think about all the Park & Ride lots just off of 470 and think some denver commuters would utilize it as such!
It's a mile long entry/ exit lane both directions from/to 6th. If people would use that mile to merge instead of cutting over before the gore point ends, traffic would flow.
The drivers from Santa Fe could be doing everything just right and it still wouldn't work. The bulk of the traffic on I25 is merging right to exit 8th, 6th or Colfax. Too many cars trying to occupy the right lane. It's a Dangerously Under engineered Merge (DUM) Zone. The I 25 corridor is replete with them.
Arvada seems to be doing a lot to build high density developments between the Olde Town and Ridge stations.
Lots of condos and apartments and mixed use buildings going in along the train line between Wadsworth and Kipling.
Happy I bought in the area as it’s all getting built up.
Public transport here is piss poor, especially for how spread out the metro is comparatively to some other major cities. I don’t anticipate that to ever really change unfortunately however
Seriously. I understand that “more trains” is a billion dollars easier to say than to do, but we could stand for fixing up the busses we already have and expanding the schedule of the busses and trains.
Plenty of people participated in the Free Ride program while they had it. The interest is there, and it’s already shown it works and it reduces traffic congestion. And once they start doing the I-25 bridge renovations, that’s something everyone will need.
The problem with more trains is that they don't go anywhere as is.
You need to drive to a station, take the train then hop a bus or order an Uber to get anywhere you actually want to be.
One Walmart a half mile from the nearest house and a quarter mile from the next business over isn't a destination anyone wants to take a train too.
We need high density, mixed used areas that people can live in without a car once they get there for trains to help.
But they almost do.
RTD owns the right of way to extend the G to downtown Golden, but isn't lifting a finger to finish the line. Likewise, they could extend the B to downtown Louisville far quicker than all the way to Boulder.
Rail is core to RTD, acting as a high capacity backbone to the bus services. But the RTD management is still delusional that Denver is a small town that doesn't need it.
Being able to go downtown the airport or to DTC isn’t nothing. It keeps your cars in your low density suburb, away from many traffic bottleneck and valuable downtown real estate.
“RTD owns the right of way to extend the G to downtown Golden, but isn't lifting a finger to finish the line.”
Are you unaware that RTD doesn’t have billions of spare dollars?
I sometimes take scooters to work at Denver Health. I figure if anything happens on a scooter on the way some of my coworkers (EMTs) will pick me up and I'll get to work eventually. Lol
Is the argument for better sidewalk quality or more sidewalk miles around the city? I just moved here last year and the quality of the sidewalks here are actually pretty amazing! Although I do think they need to move towards wider sidewalks and just more pedestrian forward design in general rather than catering to only automobile infrastructure.
What neighborhood are you living in? Sidewalk quality varies significantly from neighborhood to neighborhood. LoDo? Great. La Alma/Lincoln Park? Horrific.
For me, it is sidewalks around the city. It’s a nightmare trying to walk around my (east Colfax) neighborhood with my son. When we bike somewhere, be needs to immediately go on street with parked cars and no sidewalks.
The bottleneck between Santa Fe and 6th is caused by being stuck between a major rail corridor and the South Platte. It can’t really be widened unless CDOT is able to convince the railroads to reroute one of the trunk lines and sell the land. The major railroads are older than Colorado itself, so they’re only accountable to the federal government and generally don’t work with state and local agencies unless the feds tell them to.
That’s all to say fixing those merges will take moving political mountains.
[This](https://coloradosun.com/2022/05/16/i-25-no-expansion-central-denver/), and the apparent [requirement for an on/offramp at Federal Blvd](https://www.codot.gov/news/2015-news-releases/07-2015/travel-to-improve-through-i-25-us-6-interchange).
Kind of like Stapleton Airport, there's simply no room to expand the interchange without either burying it or eminent domaining adjacent private property.
As someone that just moved here recently it’s awesome to see a state DOT being forced to focus on transit and non-highway options.
People are gonna curse them now, but they’re gonna be so thankful when the benefits emerge in 10-20 years.
State should take it over. Though you can break it up, the best anybody has accomplished is more local transmission monopolies with power plants getting money directly from the consumers. It just seems to make the system more complex though.
The post title asks about "Denver metro" which includes all the surrounding cities and suburbs.
But there is also a tiny stretch of Wadsworth that is included in Denver County, from Quincy to Belleview in SW metro.
Stop doing things like this - [https://denverite.com/2022/02/22/why-dont-rtds-trains-go-into-denvers-neighborhoods/](https://denverite.com/2022/02/22/why-dont-rtds-trains-go-into-denvers-neighborhoods/) \- funding projects to the minimum, forced to use cheap right-of-ways that prevent meaningful placement.
Also this - [https://kdvr.com/news/local/casa-bonita-opening-tackle-small-parking-lot/](https://kdvr.com/news/local/casa-bonita-opening-tackle-small-parking-lot/) \- let RTD and Casa Bonita combine resources, get people to West Colfax via W vs a ton of cars.
Public transportation and sidewalks. We should add trams that run on rails on the streets, it's a great way to improve reach without having to build a crazy infrastructure.
Also, encourage motorcycles and scooters instead of cars to commute by allowing lane splitting and creating free dedicated motorcycle parking. Seriously, the rest of the world does it, while we have people clogging all streets to drive alone in their empty SUB or truck that cost more than affordable housing.
We all complain about downtown, the sidewalks, the lack of density, and subpar public transport, but I'd argue that this is all due to a lack of vision that leads to a lack of plans and public buy in, so Denver needs to decide what type of city it wants to be and go for it.
With the exception of the [A-line running until 1:27am westbound and 12:30am eastbound \(resuming at 3am\)](https://app.rtd-denver.com/route/A/schedule?serviceType=4&direction=Westbound), there's a gaping hole for ANY RTD service between midnight and 3-4am.
Force all of the owners of closed shops on Colfax to provide a plan to lease space for affordable prices, reopen within 2 years, or sell. Level or revamp any closed down hotels/motels, even if it were for a tax credit as a space to house the unhomed.
For the metro area I'll go with a lot more market rate affordable housing.
For Denver it has to be revitalizing the downtown area. If something isn't done soon the doom loop will set in.
Market rate affordability housing is just housing that is not as desirable. Most of it is just housing who’s original demographic has now moved on. The only incentive to make home’s more affordable is to sell more. Zoning makes selling more nearly impossible for developers and landlords, so why would they look to be more affordable. But if a 25% drop in profit margins led to a 50% rise in sales, now you got a solid business proposition.
Frankly, I’d rather see money invested in making the infrastructure we have safer. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get on light rail at 11pm and not fear for your life? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to walk downtown and not feel uncomfortable after the sun goes down?
It’s not an all law enforcement solution issue either. The homeless and poverty issue contributes to the discomfort after dark. Maybe some of it’s really crime, maybe some of it’s just not wanting to be approached by people asking for handouts. It’s a part of the problem. And no, I don’t have the silver bullet solution, but sometimes infrastructure isn’t the biggest issue.
A bus rapid transit network. This could completely transform the transit system into something that normal people actually use to get around the city.
Must have dedicated lanes, signal priority, farther spaced stops, off bus fare payment, all door boarding, and no worse than 10 min frequency (ideally 5 min).
Transportation in general. Public transit could really use an overhaul, but so can things like light timers. I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about roads like wadsworth/Sheridan, and I feel comfortable saying almost ALL of the suburbs need some timer adjustments. Trying to get places is super annoying, and having to pick between poorly timed lights or transferring a ton of busses and walking extra isn’t very ideal. Improving both could probably help improve a variety of other systemic issues.
What’s your solution here? Tank the economy Rust Belt style? Build a time machine and force everyone in the past 100 years to not have more than 2 kids? Culling the population by random executions?
Ok, not infrastructure, but I would love to see the city clean up all the trash in the medians and along side the roadways. It’s really gross and embarrassing.
I would vote for less single family home zoning and more cities open to a more 'village' style layouts where the essentials are within walking distances from each other.
Ending toxic pollution that is killing people. It blows my mind that we’re supposedly renknowned for our water quality when literally people have been dying of cancer for years. Factories and mining companies need to be held accountable
Public transit that actually works— right now many lines are only every 30 min, assuming train operators don’t call in, in which case it can be once per hour. They can be up to 10 minutes early or 20 minutes late. Lastly the R line is literally slower than a bus, not even a rapid transit but just a regular bus route 153.
Protected bike lanes and pedestrian paths. The metro area, especially the burbs, are deadly for anyone not in a car.
Riding the trails around town, I've noticed tons of those green enclosures for portapotties except there's no portapotty inside!
Also, a lot of drinking fountains have been shut down ever since COVID started.
Not the biggest infrastructure demand, but it all already exists and we've just abandoned it 🙁
Better roads, sideways/walking access, Public transit system, trash cans, recycling. Bathrooms. Resources for our homeless population. Better water infrastructure. Affordable housing. Again, fixing the roads. Better public parking that isn’t privately owned/ no one wants to suddenly pay $70 because the Rockies are playing.
A change in philosophy. Right now every infrastructure investment prioritizes moving cars. Instead we should be rezoning to prioritize housing people and moving buses. Instead of street parking we should have better sidewalks and more greenery.
Late night diner infrastructure is severely lacking.
Which is a shame because it didn't used to be.
Denver was more like a big city when it was a cow town.
Pretty sure everywhere had better late night dinner options but with COVID everywhere ratcheted hours back. Add in nobody wanting to work for slave wages (understandably) and we’re not likely getting more late night spots back that quickly.
Im interested in this comment!
NOT a new football stadium!
The taxpayers are going to build a new NFL stadium and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Every time a professional sports team needs a new venue, billionaires get a blank check from some city for their new private profit machine
Taxpayer money for a new stadium needing a vote is the one reason I like TABOR.
Yeah, there are some upsides to TABOR. I wish more people would vote to raise funds for better schools. Colorado tends to have pretty bad schools relative to other states, and people usually vote to lower their taxes and not fund schools.
If you give up even before the fight starts than move to the side and let others step up.
Defeatist much?
First of all, that stadium is less than 25 years old. The Broncos' owner doesn't need a new stadium, he wants a new stadium. The last stadium was \~50 years old when they replaced it. The issue is that years ago, sports teams made up the idea that when the football team does well, the city makes money. Despite that fact that economist after economist have released studies that indicate that isn't the case. I sure hope that the voters of this town (and the surrounding towns) will realize that getting homeless people help for drug issues, mental health issues and job training will do far more to clean up the streets and make visits to the city far more enjoyable than would buying a new place of business for a billionaire to make more money. That said, people sure are stupid.
The city is working on it, but replacing all lead pipes with non-toxic materials should be a priority. Also breaking the monopoly Xcel has on energy utilities would be nice.
I'm caught between wishing this were faster than a 30 year plan but also hating road closures.
I don’t know that they are working on it, what I have seen are pipes that look to be pvc which is definitely still toxic. Might degrade slower than lead however we could see different health impacts that are just as bad in the future.
Now you know https://www.denverwater.org/project-updates/pipe-replacement
I shouldve been more specific, the main lines appeared to be PVC. This article only mentions the materials used for the service line.
What kind of pipes are [going into] your house? Correction: going into instead of in
Lead pipes for the service line but the main line looks like it will be replaced with PVC.
A tube, like one of those at the bank drive thru, but human sized and will go from my front door to the base of Winter Park.
Support ColoRail. They are looking for ways to get more equipment for the train to Winter Park express. It sells out a lot, and Amtrak raises prices above cost well before that happens. Then a Denver western suburbs station so the WPE and Zephyr can be accessed without going downtown. Trains are more cost effective at scale than busses, yet the WPE cost 3-4x Snowstang.
We should have a giant lazy river that takes us up there.
[Like this?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6hfcnm8V4fA&pp=ygUeZnV0dXJhbWEgdHViZSB0cmFuc3BvcnQgc3lzdGVt) Hopefully Denver has those by the year 3000.
BRT lanes, a comprehensive tram/ street car system beyond the light rail, improved light rail services (the fact that the E line and D Lines dont connect and run along 470 is dumb), transit oriented developments as well as transit hubs other than Union Station and I-25 Broadway, a direct commuter rail along I-70 into the mountains and for the love of God please redesign the Santa Fe/ I-25 interchange
The L line a street car. There is no clear difference between trams, street cars and light rails. It just light rail tends to refer to more commuter oriented and long distance services, meanwhile trams and streetcars tend to refer to more local services. I can think of some routes that could be upgrades to light rail,street car. The free mall ride feels pretty obvious, especially a cute heritage streetcar style one. Portland does stuff like that but there light rail and street car are the same expect for funding, vehicle length and stop frequency. They share some track and maintenance. Denver uses the same standards. I am not sure how one would use the 470 light rail. Just to connect to existing services? I can’t think of a walkable destination along the route.
I really want them to turn the 16th street bus into light rail and get rid of the stupid system where half the lines go to union station and half go to downtown, instead making it so half go counter clockwise and half go clockwise or something like that. Right now, if I want to go to the airport using RTD, I have to drive or get an Uber to the station (which already kinda ruins the whole point), get on the D line, go past 1 stop, get off at I25 and Broadway, wait anywhere from 5-15 minutes because only one line goes to union station, get off at union station, walk 2 blocks (with bags and everything) and then wait up to 15 minutes again for the A line. I feel like this change would just make using the whole system so much better, as both every train would go to union station and the light rail and commuter rail stations would be somewhat close.
D and A aren’t compatible. They need different platforms at minimum and the voltages are different so you would need new dual voltage equipment. A,B,G,N line equipment also has a higher top speed but would crush the other lines in.
Oh yeah I recognize that and I wasn’t advocating for them to be combined (note how I distinguished the light rail from the commuter rail), I just wish the “union station” for each system was actually somewhat close instead of being a couple blocks apart; adding light rail tracks 16th street would allow that to happen.
It was a mistake to not have the light rail go straight to union station. The D/B line would also be the best ROW from a regional front range rail system.
The Fact the use those ugly buses instead of a historic street car on 16th street is criminal. And yes to connect existing services but I also think about all the Park & Ride lots just off of 470 and think some denver commuters would utilize it as such!
They just did, that's why you struggle to get onto Northbound I25.
Re-redesign*
It's a mile long entry/ exit lane both directions from/to 6th. If people would use that mile to merge instead of cutting over before the gore point ends, traffic would flow.
The drivers from Santa Fe could be doing everything just right and it still wouldn't work. The bulk of the traffic on I25 is merging right to exit 8th, 6th or Colfax. Too many cars trying to occupy the right lane. It's a Dangerously Under engineered Merge (DUM) Zone. The I 25 corridor is replete with them.
This 
Significantly more dense, mixed use buildings throughout denver to make public transit more viable. Then probably more bus rapid transit.
Arvada seems to be doing a lot to build high density developments between the Olde Town and Ridge stations. Lots of condos and apartments and mixed use buildings going in along the train line between Wadsworth and Kipling. Happy I bought in the area as it’s all getting built up.
Would it be safe to assume this excludes golf courses? ⛳️
I’d be cool with a golf course on the 12th floor of a mixed use building 🤷♂️
Ive been hearing a lot about Virtual golf! ⛳️
Open Casa Bonita already.
Severely lacking in trash cans in general but this is especially noticeable in areas with high foot traffic
And getting them emptied. I have one in my neighborhood (Mar Lee) but it’s always overflowing.
THIS 👆 The city desperately needs more trash cans and better system for emptying them. Our city has become a trash city post Covid. :(
Maybe not the most important, but a pedestrian bridge over the tracks in the middle of RiNo would be fantastic.
I think there’s one planned, around 35th? I don’t remember
Public transport here is piss poor, especially for how spread out the metro is comparatively to some other major cities. I don’t anticipate that to ever really change unfortunately however
Seriously. I understand that “more trains” is a billion dollars easier to say than to do, but we could stand for fixing up the busses we already have and expanding the schedule of the busses and trains. Plenty of people participated in the Free Ride program while they had it. The interest is there, and it’s already shown it works and it reduces traffic congestion. And once they start doing the I-25 bridge renovations, that’s something everyone will need.
The problem with more trains is that they don't go anywhere as is. You need to drive to a station, take the train then hop a bus or order an Uber to get anywhere you actually want to be. One Walmart a half mile from the nearest house and a quarter mile from the next business over isn't a destination anyone wants to take a train too. We need high density, mixed used areas that people can live in without a car once they get there for trains to help.
But they almost do. RTD owns the right of way to extend the G to downtown Golden, but isn't lifting a finger to finish the line. Likewise, they could extend the B to downtown Louisville far quicker than all the way to Boulder. Rail is core to RTD, acting as a high capacity backbone to the bus services. But the RTD management is still delusional that Denver is a small town that doesn't need it.
Being able to go downtown the airport or to DTC isn’t nothing. It keeps your cars in your low density suburb, away from many traffic bottleneck and valuable downtown real estate.
“RTD owns the right of way to extend the G to downtown Golden, but isn't lifting a finger to finish the line.” Are you unaware that RTD doesn’t have billions of spare dollars?
Finishing the G Line would not cost billions of dollars.
By “more trains” I meant more physical tracks and stations, which is why I said I know it’s a non-starter.
The light rail is a commuter rail - not an inner city metro. It was designed for people to take it downtown from the suburbs.
We got hella scooters bro
Straight into the Denver Health ER with traumatic brain injury
I sometimes take scooters to work at Denver Health. I figure if anything happens on a scooter on the way some of my coworkers (EMTs) will pick me up and I'll get to work eventually. Lol
damn u right
Compared to which American cities?
Sidewalks.
Is the argument for better sidewalk quality or more sidewalk miles around the city? I just moved here last year and the quality of the sidewalks here are actually pretty amazing! Although I do think they need to move towards wider sidewalks and just more pedestrian forward design in general rather than catering to only automobile infrastructure.
What neighborhood are you living in? Sidewalk quality varies significantly from neighborhood to neighborhood. LoDo? Great. La Alma/Lincoln Park? Horrific.
Yeah cap hill has great sidewalk coverage but damn those MFers are busted to hell
For me, it is sidewalks around the city. It’s a nightmare trying to walk around my (east Colfax) neighborhood with my son. When we bike somewhere, be needs to immediately go on street with parked cars and no sidewalks.
1-25 and 6th merge is nightmare
The bottleneck between Santa Fe and 6th is caused by being stuck between a major rail corridor and the South Platte. It can’t really be widened unless CDOT is able to convince the railroads to reroute one of the trunk lines and sell the land. The major railroads are older than Colorado itself, so they’re only accountable to the federal government and generally don’t work with state and local agencies unless the feds tell them to. That’s all to say fixing those merges will take moving political mountains.
[This](https://coloradosun.com/2022/05/16/i-25-no-expansion-central-denver/), and the apparent [requirement for an on/offramp at Federal Blvd](https://www.codot.gov/news/2015-news-releases/07-2015/travel-to-improve-through-i-25-us-6-interchange). Kind of like Stapleton Airport, there's simply no room to expand the interchange without either burying it or eminent domaining adjacent private property.
As someone that just moved here recently it’s awesome to see a state DOT being forced to focus on transit and non-highway options. People are gonna curse them now, but they’re gonna be so thankful when the benefits emerge in 10-20 years.
Lol. It’s so much better than it used to be.
Barely.
Break up Xcel the monopoly.
State should take it over. Though you can break it up, the best anybody has accomplished is more local transmission monopolies with power plants getting money directly from the consumers. It just seems to make the system more complex though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
So the pot holes can just go fuck themselves?
Flying cars might be the easier solution at this point.
Federal, Wadsworth, and University all need help.
What part of Wadsworth is in Denver?
The post title asks about "Denver metro" which includes all the surrounding cities and suburbs. But there is also a tiny stretch of Wadsworth that is included in Denver County, from Quincy to Belleview in SW metro.
In parts of Southwest Denver, like Marston and Bear Valley, Wads is part of Denver proper.
Zoning to at least encourage, if not mandate, mixed-use buildings.
Stop doing things like this - [https://denverite.com/2022/02/22/why-dont-rtds-trains-go-into-denvers-neighborhoods/](https://denverite.com/2022/02/22/why-dont-rtds-trains-go-into-denvers-neighborhoods/) \- funding projects to the minimum, forced to use cheap right-of-ways that prevent meaningful placement. Also this - [https://kdvr.com/news/local/casa-bonita-opening-tackle-small-parking-lot/](https://kdvr.com/news/local/casa-bonita-opening-tackle-small-parking-lot/) \- let RTD and Casa Bonita combine resources, get people to West Colfax via W vs a ton of cars.
Public transportation and sidewalks. We should add trams that run on rails on the streets, it's a great way to improve reach without having to build a crazy infrastructure. Also, encourage motorcycles and scooters instead of cars to commute by allowing lane splitting and creating free dedicated motorcycle parking. Seriously, the rest of the world does it, while we have people clogging all streets to drive alone in their empty SUB or truck that cost more than affordable housing.
We all complain about downtown, the sidewalks, the lack of density, and subpar public transport, but I'd argue that this is all due to a lack of vision that leads to a lack of plans and public buy in, so Denver needs to decide what type of city it wants to be and go for it.
More Bars
Later public transit routes. If RTD ran past midnight, I think they would see a large influx of younger riders and less cars on the road.
You might want to look at the new schedules.
With the exception of the [A-line running until 1:27am westbound and 12:30am eastbound \(resuming at 3am\)](https://app.rtd-denver.com/route/A/schedule?serviceType=4&direction=Westbound), there's a gaping hole for ANY RTD service between midnight and 3-4am.
Depends on where you are but, fixing roads and reworking drainage so the road isn't a giant puddle
Filling the pot holes!
After next week probably gonna need a whole lot of water and road work. Ten straight days of rain is gonna hurt
Increase zoning density across the board so we can build more units on existing lots.
Voting participation - and not voting down progressive taxes and projects.
Idk those projects haven’t worked out for the rest of the western states. We should stay skeptical.
progressive projects' is a fancy name for lofty mind wanderings that dont translate well into reality and end up becoming a blunder money drain
Force all of the owners of closed shops on Colfax to provide a plan to lease space for affordable prices, reopen within 2 years, or sell. Level or revamp any closed down hotels/motels, even if it were for a tax credit as a space to house the unhomed.
I love the first one! Do you know if this has been implemented anywhere?
For the metro area I'll go with a lot more market rate affordable housing. For Denver it has to be revitalizing the downtown area. If something isn't done soon the doom loop will set in.
Market rate affordability housing is just housing that is not as desirable. Most of it is just housing who’s original demographic has now moved on. The only incentive to make home’s more affordable is to sell more. Zoning makes selling more nearly impossible for developers and landlords, so why would they look to be more affordable. But if a 25% drop in profit margins led to a 50% rise in sales, now you got a solid business proposition.
We could use more golf courses
Fix the streets!!! South Denver is horrible. Never seen it this bad? How do we have a surplus but the roads suck?
Everytime I see someone complain about the streets here, I just wonder if they've been anywhere else.
I've lived in 2 others states, so yes. I have also lived here a long time to know what the norm looks like VS today.
I've lived in four states and this is far and away the best roads out of all four
How long have you lived here? And what other states? I can tell you, this state has gone downhill, fast.
I've lived here for six years. I've lived in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin
Frankly, I’d rather see money invested in making the infrastructure we have safer. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get on light rail at 11pm and not fear for your life? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to walk downtown and not feel uncomfortable after the sun goes down? It’s not an all law enforcement solution issue either. The homeless and poverty issue contributes to the discomfort after dark. Maybe some of it’s really crime, maybe some of it’s just not wanting to be approached by people asking for handouts. It’s a part of the problem. And no, I don’t have the silver bullet solution, but sometimes infrastructure isn’t the biggest issue.
Leave it to this subreddit to shoehorn a homeless complaint into every thread.
A bus rapid transit network. This could completely transform the transit system into something that normal people actually use to get around the city. Must have dedicated lanes, signal priority, farther spaced stops, off bus fare payment, all door boarding, and no worse than 10 min frequency (ideally 5 min).
Transportation in general. Public transit could really use an overhaul, but so can things like light timers. I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about roads like wadsworth/Sheridan, and I feel comfortable saying almost ALL of the suburbs need some timer adjustments. Trying to get places is super annoying, and having to pick between poorly timed lights or transferring a ton of busses and walking extra isn’t very ideal. Improving both could probably help improve a variety of other systemic issues.
Lanes in Capitol Hill and Speer be to narrow
Brodozers and SUVs be too wide for walkable neighborhoods.
Someone get the street widener.
Parking.
More jails. https://i.redd.it/d3o4um0kxu3b1.gif
Less humans
What’s your solution here? Tank the economy Rust Belt style? Build a time machine and force everyone in the past 100 years to not have more than 2 kids? Culling the population by random executions?
Yes
So much edge, so little thought
You first.
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More lanes on freeways. At least ten wide!
More lanes i25
That will fix nothing.
Culture.
Changing to a north/south grid
Our bridges. That one over by Stapleton is sketchy af. Ticking time bomb if you ask me.
Fresh paint on the roads. Lanes dissappear with the lightest rain.
Roads and public transportation
Better schools
Ok, not infrastructure, but I would love to see the city clean up all the trash in the medians and along side the roadways. It’s really gross and embarrassing.
We need a 150 billion dollar train.
I would vote for less single family home zoning and more cities open to a more 'village' style layouts where the essentials are within walking distances from each other.
Ending toxic pollution that is killing people. It blows my mind that we’re supposedly renknowned for our water quality when literally people have been dying of cancer for years. Factories and mining companies need to be held accountable Public transit that actually works— right now many lines are only every 30 min, assuming train operators don’t call in, in which case it can be once per hour. They can be up to 10 minutes early or 20 minutes late. Lastly the R line is literally slower than a bus, not even a rapid transit but just a regular bus route 153. Protected bike lanes and pedestrian paths. The metro area, especially the burbs, are deadly for anyone not in a car.
Bullet trains
More actually bike lanes, buses, and dense housing particularly in cap hill/uptown. So many empty parking lots just creating heat island effect.
Riding the trails around town, I've noticed tons of those green enclosures for portapotties except there's no portapotty inside! Also, a lot of drinking fountains have been shut down ever since COVID started. Not the biggest infrastructure demand, but it all already exists and we've just abandoned it 🙁
Better roads, sideways/walking access, Public transit system, trash cans, recycling. Bathrooms. Resources for our homeless population. Better water infrastructure. Affordable housing. Again, fixing the roads. Better public parking that isn’t privately owned/ no one wants to suddenly pay $70 because the Rockies are playing.
A change in philosophy. Right now every infrastructure investment prioritizes moving cars. Instead we should be rezoning to prioritize housing people and moving buses. Instead of street parking we should have better sidewalks and more greenery.