I'm starting to wish all highways would get reduced to single lane in each direction roads, and quad track rail would be built in the middle of the freed up space. Put the roads in a trench and lid them around stations to allow pedestrians to move.

Went yesterday and the ticket counter was not a thing at the time, you don’t go to casa Bonita for the food… For me atleast, it was fun! Had an 11am ticket in the generic line and I was sat in the corner. I understood that because it was just me and I wanted to eat and go have fun. The puppet show or the magic show in the theatre were probably my favorites thing. All in all I spent close to $50. Food and 1 margarita+tip. If you’ve been to the old casa Bonita, they had unlimited food and sopa pillas. I accepted that I didn’t come for the food. I came for the experience. And that experience was worth the money.. they made the area adult friendly with jokes but very kid friendly as well.. it felt like an adult Chuck E. Cheese but with a side of south park without the cussing. Wow.. this is the first time I wrote this long of a commment.. have a goodnight. Like you I did record everything inside. Video will be out eventually.

The way he said "weve got bread" made me expect the next sentence would be "and the circuses consist out of the same people responsible for designing the roads"

The least used line of the L is Yellow, not Pink

Dude! This is why we can't have nice things. One Emo guy talking in monotone and not even mentioning all the many shows they have after eating. You didn't watch one show and just whined the whole time 😏 pathetic.

you should do jakarta metropolitan rail lines

It's Dev - On. Not Devin

Arguing with brainwashed idiots just means you accept their frame. Don't argue with Americans who take the following suicidal positions (thanks to brainwashing) 1. Support for Russia (which includes North Korea and China) 2. That Rail is not American. This country was built on rails. The world runs on rails. Any denial of this is brainwashing, not logical. 3. That taxes should not be used to pay for it. The louder someone complains about taxes, the less likely they make enough money to actually pay taxes.

Geez this guy is a right knob. Not deserving of a Casa Bonita experience.

It is kind of ironic that after complaining about car centric planning you suggest a tunnel or bridge. Which is really just car planning that is designed to look like pedestrian planning.

Some, not all but certainly some, of the desire paths are a product of needing a looping route to maintain slope for handicap accessibility. But it would be nice if the added a step for direct routes and the lower pitched route for bikes, wheelchairs, scooters, and any other wheeled option.

It is not quite as simple as running on existing tracks. At the bare minimum stations are going to need to be developed and some capacity of parking etc (or better TOD but that is a different convo). This, as is most freight lines, is very wiggly and squiggly as freight doesn't much care about speeds. Passenger rail speed reigns supreme. This looks like a logical corridor but likely best to do some sort of hybrid where it splits off the old tracks to make stops downtown/at stadiums. I like the idea of nationalized rails but in all reality encouraging private companies to 2-track and electrify rails with tax incentives or some kind of cost sharing might be easier and more effective. How it integrates with the airport ride would be one factor that would impact ridership. Your schedule would likely need to be reworked. Trains running at 6, 7, 7:30*, 8, 8:30*, 9, 9:30*, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 3:30*, 4, 4:30*, 5, 5:30*, 6, 7, 8, & 10 would probably yield better ridership. The ones with an * would be an express option weekdays only skipping the intermediate stops. Add in special event trains coordinated with sporting events, concerts, etc. Lastly, and maybe most importantly, if you really want to maximize the value of something like this the goal should be a lot higher than 100 year old technology. I'm not saying it needs to be true high speed but you really want to target at least 125 MPH peak speeds. That way with stops and areas with bad geometry you can maintain close to 70 MPH. And this would require pretty extensive deviation from the existing tracks

RTD LRT is all about where they were allowed to build, not where it is best and most appropriate-you’ll see that on the PR (R line). What you didn’t mention was that the stroad that had the crosswalk to the ped island, was the end of C-470 on the west side, the loop surrounding 3/4 of the Denver metro. That right turn lane is better known as a “slip lane” to keep traffic flowing at a higher speed than making a 90 degree turn, making sure that the traffic from C-470 northbound onto either direction of US6 don’t have to stop-notice the flyover to westbound US6? For this reason, that it connects to US6, C-470 cannot be truncated as you suggested.

Awesome video!

They gave all the design consideration to ADA requirements because if it looks like something a person in a wheelchair could traverse but doesn’t meet code (ADA), they could be sued and found liable for someone falling backwards or sliding backwards. They could have installed a crushed granite path or even pavers and indicated as not accessible. I had to ride my bike all along the ramp because I didn’t want to expose my tires to the thorns.

Hey man, great video. Do you think you could do something about the 29th street mall in boulder? I think that’s a great example of mind bogglingly bad land use in an area with some of the most valuable real estate in the country.

The Platte River bike trail also runs along the west side of Overland. It''s a prime spot between Ruby Hill and Broadway.

i live in the denver metro area and I am SO glad that there is someone putting RTD, and Denver, to the sword for this absolutely heinous land use. In my opinion, the land use in Denver is absolutely THE #1 thing holding it back from being a great city. The whole region has been choked by highways and stroads for decades. Things seem to be moving very slowly in the right direction, but it needs to happen 10x as fast if we want to undo all the damage car-based infrastructure has done to our city in a reasonable time frame. Great video, you have earned a new subscriber.

the only mode of transport that is truly free in NA is freight trains

Don’t oversell this project. There will never be enough passengers for the foreseeable future that will ride a front range train every hour in both directions. So don’t try to spin this as a regional train with high frequencies. Commuter and light rail within the Denver area barely supports trains with this frequency during non rush hours, and slightly better frequencies during rush hour. I see maybe 4 or six trains a day being possible, morning, noon, and evening train in both directions. More money would be spent on trains, maintenance shops, crews, and station platforms than on extra passing sidings the freight train operators will demand. Additionally, there are some advocating for regional trains on the Tennessee Pass line east of Glenwood Springs. I doubt Colorado could afford to do both at the same time - especially with high frequency, low to no emissions trains.😊

Appreciate you visiting and taking the time to evaluate our transit system. Though I have to say, much of what you've suggested has either been tried and failed, or hasn't been tried for good reasons. While the RTA is pretty good by American standards, there are numerous political and financial challenges that prevent it from becoming as robust and cohesive as area transit advocates would like. If the good ideas amongst yours were possible, they would already be done no doubt.

Every one of these arguments goes double for the Park Hill Golf Course

Mindblowing to hear Belgrade being singled out for praise, mad respect xD good vid

40th & Colorado Station is right near the Park Hill Golf course.

Blah blah blah. Just say the place sucks and dont go there. This was entirely too long for you to hate it. Shuda been 24sec long.

another kid with 0 life experience wants to transform our nation LOL commie indoctrination is strong here.

In Utah and seeing green golf courses during the worst of the drought a couple years ago was infuriating. If it’s city land, it should either be publicly available as a park or developed into a proper land use. If it’s private their water consumption should be metered and the first flow to be limited when there’s a bad winter or hot summer

Definitely convert Sante Fe Dr to a regular low capacity road. Convert intersections to roundabouts, but I definitely wouldn't put any parking on it. Slow it to 20mph for about 1/2 a mile through the new development. Move the highway to Federal, it has enough room and looks like a stroad anyway. Run a tram from Federal along W Florida to the new station, down to W Iowa, and out to University of Denver Station.

Idk what is worst, Denver having golf courses that take up such prime land or here in Bakersfield, CA- where we plan entire new neighborhoods (like 99% single family homes and mansions ofc) designed completely around golf courses.

We would lose something if they redo the area around Osage. We will lose prime graffiti space 😡

Hopefully it would go better than the last time someone in Denver suggested redeveloping an old golf course…

Let's ban cars!

Have you heard of San Diego's Riverwalk? A 27 hole golf course being converted into 4300 units and 1M sq ft office, at the same density as Park Hill would've been, at the same distance from San Diego's Downtown station as Park Hill is from Denver Union. But even better because Riverwalk will get an infill LRT station smack in its center and is already within walking distance from the city's largest mall, where there's already a LRT station. And the grading and street pavement for Riverwalk Phase I is complete.

Go back... and get yourself ready for some boogers and cum

U...need help with the editing?

Awesome video keep it up!

Always gonna drop what I’m doing to watch a Willis video about Denver urbanism 🙏🏽

Thank you for making this channel so I didn't have to. Let's form a coalition and lobby for better urban development in the Denver Metro area.

Cicero is pronounced "SIS-sir-row" after the Roman senator of the same name. As for the station names, it can be confusing to out-of-towners to have so many stations so far apart with the same names, but we homegrown Chicagoans are kinda used to it. Possibly, the only change I'd make is renaming the two Western Ave stations on the Blue Line to "Western/Milwaukee" and "Western/Eisenhower Expwy." Otherwise, people can refer to "the Western station on the Brown Line," or "the Western station on the Orange Line," etc.

All arcades are rip offs when you think about it. I don't mind the price, but that weird exclusivity thing with the waiting list that you may or may not get added to is a little ridiculous. Maube they just didnt want people camping outside the restaurant

That seems like an old google maps view of Prairie Center. There are more restaurants and other shops away from the main strip of shops now. Maybe it would qualify for F tier now?

The four most densely populated municipalities in Illinois are suburbs (Chicago is #5), there are hundreds of thousands of people who live within blocks of transit, silly to call it car dependent sprawl (yes, there is sprawl on outskirts). Metra is primarily a COMMUTER rail line, not rapid transit. There would not be people hopping on Metra trains in most areas every 15 minutes. Some of your suggestions are how the trains used to run in the past. The CTA was only formed in 1940s, hobbled together from formerly private lines. You totally missed the pedway, an extensive underground system connecting many buildings, train stations, etc. and used often in the winter. On station names, Chicago is EXTREMELY easy to figure out, it is a big grid and always shows how many hundred blocks. Every eight blocks is a mile. No one would get confused about a street on total different sides of the city and most locals immediately know how far West/East/South/North of major streets (Western is 2400, or three miles west of State as example). Just by hearing an address it is easy to know where something is located. Is no different than multiple stops in NYC at same streets but different lines.

That Sounthlands part made me giggle real good! I mean you have a mall street in the middle of a parking lot, which takes up like 80% of the whole area and they still put diagonal parking on the main so-called old-town street I am out of words.

I have just found this series today and it's golden content with very good presenting. Incredible that people outside of the car have to go out of their way to reach destinations in the US, even when transit is present. Now if you excuse me, I need to go through more videos on this channel

Run passenger trains on the old ej&e line from waukegan to joliet.

I would propose these changes: Red Line: none. The extension will do wonders. Purple Line: extend it all the way to Ashland/63rd or even creating a Western Station. With this, reopening Racine and building a station at 59th/State feels extremely necessary. Brown Line: I would merge it with the Orange Line. Pink Line: I would extend it to Harlem and close Kostner. Green Line: getting rid of the Englewood Branch and extending it all the way to the Obama Center while building an infill station at Dorchester or University. Yellow Line: opening one more station (maybe Asbury) would be great. Blue Line: I think it’s fine. I wish there was a line running from O’Hare to Midway, tho.

You can add all of these to the "shit will never happen in a million years" at the current rate.

No one will be paying billions for these recommendations. Metra trains are not full during the day. Why would they increase service ?