I heard that RTD went out on strike in Denver. How is traffic? Somehow this did not make the same news as the New York strike.
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Light rail has not moved in 36 hours.
Traffic is not that bad. Opening day at the ballpark did make a mess out of traffic yesterday. The parking lot operators are making a killing in downtown Denver and the rates have jumped.
so what makes headlines in NY barely rates a yawn if it happens in Denver
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As was pointed out in the Denver news media yesterday, the percentage of people using mass transit is considerably less than the major burgs on the east and west coasts. Therefore: less impact. In addition, half the busses in Denver are still running because of state insistance that there be a 50:50 mix of in-house union employees and contract operators that lessened the impact (especially for the disabled)…ironically the union leadership wanted the rank & file to approve the contract offer.
Does Denver have any commuter rail lines ?
As in heavy rail? - 4 to be in service by 2010 (FasTracks) … will be interesting to see the state try to split that up.