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Originally Posted by Wizened Variations
Run a business sometime. Not one of those huge corporations whose profits are determined in signficant part by city, county, state, and, federal lobbying, but one that works with seeking the lowest priced solutions while providing excellent customer service 'honestly.'
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Be more successful, than you won't have to.
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Send an employee on a business trip, as the owner (or part owner) of a business.
Order priority shipped parts by air (you will go through Fedex and Kinko if you have any frequency of shipment) intrastate or international.
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Another operational cost.
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Imagine yourself coming to Denver on a business trip, with the DIA to Lodo line complete, and you are spending your 'own' money. Provide yourself an intinerary where you are to see clients (and/or suppliers) scattered throughout the metro area. Go to Google maps and see how Denver is laid out, cross coorelate that with door to door trip times.
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Wait, so you're bitching about a business trip that has multiple visits at your destination at multiple locations? Just how should businesses that are located in the suburbs, to seek lower operating costs, benefit from the East Line? They shouldn't. It's the trade-off of being located in the suburbs, your transportation costs are going to be a greater portion of your operational costs.
I don't give two shits about the traveling salesman, the cost of dedicated transportation is a necessary cost of doing business for them and no transit system in the world will provide the efficiency and ease of access they need for visiting multiple clients.
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This is not a romantic issue, where one looks at the architecture and goes "Gee" but a practical issue concerning the time-value-cost of my money versus how much time I spend.
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Yes, and unless you're seeking the lowest cost possible regardless of time or are located within the city center, this option does not make sense to you. However, you know where the system is going, if you wanted to make use of it, you could consider a site relocation.