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Originally Posted by SnyderBock
A good portion of the West LRT runs down an abandoned streetcar line. Denver's other LRT lines so far, have either run along railroad ROW, along highway ROW or even along-side City Street ROW.
With the West LRT using abandoned streetcar ROW, it cuts right through the urban fabric, separably from streets and highways (at least for the half of the line which uses streetcar ROW).
Denver once had something like 300 miles of streetcars, which was more than any city west of the Mississippi River (at the time), other than San Francisco.
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oh you denver folks and your west of the mississippi claims.
kansas city had at least as much streetcar milage as denver, of course it was larger.