Interview: Front Range Rail planners want to start with bare-bones service. Here’s what else you need to know
Interview: Front Range Rail planners want to start with bare-bones service. Here’s what else you need to know
A bare-bones rail line would share track with freight trains and operate only up to six trips a day.
Colorado desperately needs something like this. I hope it passes. Although the service times are few and far between, people will make it work, I guarantee it.
Utah has something similar between its southernmost city in the greater Salt Lake area - Provo- and up to Ogden. I believe it also shares the lines with freight and while there are delays if a freight train is going somewhere (passenger trains give way), it's still very popular.
This sounds absolutely fantastic. If I could have ridden a train from Boulder to C. Springs in college, I would have never needed a car. With the number of commuters that live outside of Denver and commute to it (or more rarely in the other direction) having this option should greatly relieve the number of vehicles on I25
There is such a desperate need for this yet Coloradoans are usually so against it. Even in the interview they ask "why not one more lane?". Because more lanes don't solve traffic people. Commuters need an easy rail line, most other cities of that size have a commuter rail option, how does Denver not? Seattle we have the sounder and it's used daily. Phoenix, San Diego, places exist with these already running. Just do it already
The sounder, the 1-line, the ferries. Seattle is pretty great for public transportation. The only place I've seen better is Vancouver, but I'm not super well traveled.
But if coming from Tacoma to go watch college hockey in Northgate? There's no better way to travel than the 1-line, IMO. Or trying to get to the airport without all the insane traffic and poorly designed on and odds? 1-line.