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Originally Posted by jhwk
I'd vote for it, but why a Broadway subway instead of a Colfax subway?
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Please note, I was proposing the underground Civic Center Station be designed with built in, east-west subway expansion capacity. There are many reasons as to why Broadway would be built first...
1.) Colfax corridor is having a BRT line constructed. This BRT line will need to be operational and given time to mature, before we can accurately determine the necessity and priority (over other potential projects) for a subway down Colfax.
2.) Broadway Station is a hub station, making it ideal to feed multiple routes into Denver's first subway. If the subway uses LRT's and the track comes up to at-grade and connects into the track at Broadway Station, lines from I-225, SE and SW could all be fed into the Broadway subway as a new entry into downtown and Union Station.
3.) This would relieve congested lines currently using the at-grade downtown Central Corridor loop.
4.) Density along this stretch of Santa Fe/Broadway/Lincoln/Sherman/Logan corridor is high and comparable to anything along Colfax.
5.) Union Station to Broadway Station connects two major hubs together, with a third major hub, Civic Center Station in the middle Colfax Subway would have no natural terminus, unless it ran all the way out to I-225 LRT/A-Line/Peroria Station.