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Originally Posted by bcp
if this happens - let's just hope they put the routes where people actually LIVE and work...
one thing that has suprised me is the disparity between the amount of TOD along i-25 vs. along Santa Fe...both have challenges, but the SE line seems to spur much more development than the SW line.
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I wonder if there has ever been a study done on mass transit as a tool for social engineering vs. mass transit as a need for people's daily lives.
It appears to me that transit that people need as a matter of survival tends to be buses in a city like Denver. Projects conceived for social purposes like reducing traffic, being green, and expanding mass transit for the sake of expanding mass transit is more likely to be rail. Each has a distinctly different type of rider. It would be a pretty big leap to say people would be better behaved on 15L if it was a streetcar and nothing else changed.