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Originally Posted by Brandon716
Light Rail essentially is an upgraded version of a streetcar, and many light rail systems have significant portions that run in the street. Even one of America's prime examples of a fantastic light rail system in Portland runs right in the middle of downtown streets. Denver's RTD: runs in downtown streets.
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Denver's Central Corridor LRT runs in dedicated ROW between the street and the side walk, in downtown. This was the LRT starter line opened in 1993. I think it was 2001, the CPV LRT downtown line opened, which routed most LRT trains entering downtown along a new, dedicated ROW along freight rail (not streets) into Denver Union Station in Lower Downtown (LoDo). As part of FasTracks, RTD will convert most of the Central Corridor LRT running along downtown streets, into a single LRT car modern streetcar starter line.
So all 4-car LRT trains will by-pass downtown streets and run down the CPV directly to Union Station. A few 3-car LRT trains will run into downtown on the original Central Corridor through the Convention Center and 4 blocks into downtown on dedicated streetside ROW to the 16th Street mall, circling back around out of downtown via the downtown LRT loop. The remainder of the downtown LRT line will be extended and converted to a streetcar starter line.
Here's what RTD is doing with Denver's Central Corridor downtown LRT:
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