How Transit Shaped Denver’s BEST Neighborhoods…100 Years Ago!

[@toiky9476]

It’s wonderful seeing people come to Denver. So much high density has been built, bike lanes, and pedestrian infrastructure has been built! Please come again and visit pearl street, a pedestrianized street in downtown boulder, it’s wonderful!

[@kylekermgard]

14:36 You can still ride that old trolley by REI

[@williammckelvey2677]

Our neighborhoods need more corner stores and grocery stores, but you have found some great neighborhoods that are a bit suprising to see in the Mountain West. We have solid urban neighborhoods, right by the mountains. It's a shame you didn't make it to Capitol Hill and Cheesman Park though! The original streetcar neighborhoods and the densest in Colorado!

[@ttopero]

So glad you were able to visit & get to see the legacy of our streetcar suburbs. As a resident of the central Broadway area (Thank you for not degrading it to SoBo!) & urban designer working to improve the area, I’d love to talk with you about some less known or understood issues that we are dealing with. Recognizing that Denver is as much a traffic sewer network for foreign car occupants, we need to adjust what we propose to not get laughed out the door but also to get something that would genuinely work. Broadway/Lincoln is one area. & as a full time ‪bicyclist‬, you’re spot on with the “neighborhood bikeways” as infrastructure-would be happy to discuss how it works & how it could be improved. Hopefully you’re willing to learn from us as I seek to do when visiting LA.

[@Connor_Herman]

This video was randomly recommended to me and I was surprised to see my neighborhood so heavily featured. I half expected to see myself in some of your B roll. I live a block off central Tennyson and I agree that Berkeley is one of the best neighborhoods in Denver. I love that the neighborhood is densifying despite hearing how much better the neighborhood was “back in the day” from some neighbors and older uber drivers. It wasn’t until after I lived here that I saw exposed tramway tracks under Tennyson during some construction which sent me down a rabbit hole. I wish we still had such direct access to downtown, but non staggered buses every hour on 44th and 38th seem to be the best we can do. That said, it’s clear demand is showing people are willing to pay a premium to live in walkable neighborhoods. I pay over $1500 a month to share a 3 bedroom with 2 roommates. I’m hopeful I can continue to afford to stay nearby. It’s so nice to live somewhere walkable while still being within 10-20 minutes from downtown.

[@SeaBassTian]

I had to check because I was pretty sure I took the RTD from my hotel downtown to RiNo when I visited it four years ago but upon further review, the light rail to the 25th Welton Station and had to walk 15 mins to my destination. Yeah Denver rocks but could be improved with better transit coverage and some other small tweaks!

[@jimbo1637]

Neighborhoods like these always make me hopeful that European style street cars could be super successful in the US as long as we're willing to ban cars from a few streets.

[@gavingavingavin]

My friends and I have always made fun of the bike icons they put on the roads, but that diagram is a yikes! I would definitely rather have a protected bike lane than paint on the roads!

[@nickmonks9563]

No-one but realtors call it "Lohi". It is Highland, Highlands, or Lower Highlands. And, to return to the realtors again, it is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city.

[@nickmonks9563]

(70s/80s people might call it "North Denver" and resist the Highland label, but they often don't know it's history as it's own city across the Platte.)