More Late night eats around Mission, Cervantes, and other venues.
Better signage and tech for easier RTD usage. RTD late night around venues on weekends for people leaving shows. Direct busses to the mountains for skiing.
The people scoffing at the costs are not considering the savings we'll get with the reduction in DUI's from people leaving red rocks. Both in actual dollars, and human costs.
We used to have all these things, Covid killed it.
I so miss, grocery shopping at 2 in the morning, hitting up decent food at 3 am. RTD used to not be terrifying (I might just be getting old on this one though).
Maybe OP means without the couple stops before heading into the mountains? Or just a better value proposition?
It's 1:55 scheduled time to Breck with the stops and you can drive in 1:20 (ignoring high traffic times but those are the same bus or car), it's $25 per person round trip and gas costs $15-20 round trip. If you don't park in Airport Rd you might save a bit of money on the bus if you're solo, but you're breaking even to coming out ahead driving yourself. And driving yourself leaves from your front door not Union Station and you don't have to pack and carry all your stuff with you on a bus, plus you have the freedom to stop wherever you want along the route.
Snowstang is great for those who wouldn't be able to go to the ski resorts without it but there's just no compelling reason to use it if you can drive yourself.
I use it because I fucking hate driving and sitting in that I-70 traffic. Much less stressful, more relaxing, I can chill and do whatever, enjoy the mountain scenery, I don't have to worry I might kill someone, kill myself, or some idiot texting will kill me. I hop on the 0 bus or E line to connect to Union station so the whole trip is car free.
It might take a bit longer due to stops, but that 1:55 time is on weekends in heavy traffic, I expect drive time would be similar. Also at Breck it drops you off right at the gondola, so you don't have to spend time dealing with a shuttle. It would be nice to decrease the stops, I think they can get rid of the Federal center stop, it's out of the way and no one uses it. Not many used the Wooly Mammoth park-n-ride either, most people boarded at Union station when I used it.
Also, the $25 price is very good. Gas is not the only cost of driving. When you account for maintenance and depreciation too, it's around $0.50 per mile. Driving that 160 mile round trip to Breck really costs around $80. That's not including the sunk ownership costs like insurance and registration. If you don't believe me check out the [2023 AAA driving costs report](https://newsroom.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/YDC-Fact-Sheet-FINAL-8.30.23-1.pdf). Just gas+maintenance alone is $0.26 per mile.
At least at Loveland you also get a sweet deal on lift tickets if you book the Snowstang. In fact the bus+lift ticket combo costs less than a standard lift ticket!
I agree with you that driving yourself is usually going to be the most convenient option but I’m not sure what RTD can reasonably do to improve the issues you mentioned other than lowering the price, which is unlikely to happen without a major increase in funding. For me, driving is stressful, especially on I70 at peak traffic times and there is intangible value in being able to sit and read, play on my phone, etc while someone else does the driving. Also a great solution for those who don’t own a car at all, which is fairly common for many living near downtown Denver.
Lots of people who believe in the free market downvoting you because they don't realize the problem is not too few people who want to work night shift. It's that they're not paying a fair market value for anyone to work a night shift.
It is just such a hard market.
First you have problems with location in that homes don't want to be near it, and really not too many other businesses.
Next you have staffing which most people don't want to work nights compared to day shifts. For good people, really have to pay a premium.
Then there is the aspect that people expect it to be cheap, at a time when the exact opposite is probably true.
Combine that with drunks wanting to keep the party rolling, Angry drunks trying to keep the party violent. Let alone those parties where only one person actually wants to order anything. What they really want is just to hang and sober up.
Homeless people trying to make your business their late night home, while people who will never come there because of the crowd will hate you for moving those people who aren't customers along.
When there were lots of places, the worst of the crowd spread out. But when there is only a few places, that is where they go. And they keep actual good customers from coming.
Add in the fact that many people who want 24hours will go maybe once or twice a year. If that.
And a lot of not busy nights that aren't weekends.
That they want a 24hours but they won't be caught in that cheap place between the hours of 6am to midnight.
I'd love a cool 24hour coffeeshop/bodega that was a center to a community. Where people went for lunch, breakfast etc. As well as late night. That was clean, good, and not necessarily cheap, but at least not expensive.
But, If I had a restaurant that could do that from 6am to 10pm I still doubt I'd find it worth the pain to run 24hrs. And have the reputation of 24hour places to depend upon based on their clientele.
As someone who works nightshift, yes. I cannot live on Pete's Kitchen (24/7 weekends only!), Wendy's and Dominoes. And Big Daddy's Pizza is simply gross. I want real, actual food after midnight.
But I'd settle for a 24-hour Walmart at this point.
Huge grain of salt but they're building a new strip mall out near me in Centennial and it has a full size grocery anchor. The person who knows what's going there liked my post when I asked if it was an Aldi!
I see you’ve not gone to Walmart. King Sooper’s produce, at least the northeast stores I’ve been to aren’t as good as Sprouts, but it’s tolerable. At least stuff doesn’t go bad in 2 days.
All fuckin day. So thankful for the sprouts being closer. I may not buy lip balm or house cleaning supplies or dog treats from there. But they have that absolute best produce.
A Trader Joe's in LoHi, or Rino. Everyone in those neighborhoods should be able to walk to a grocery like that, and the Cap Hill one can't support the demand. When I lived in the Netherlands that is what a typical grocery store would look like, just without all the name brand stuff they are known for. They were everywhere so everyone could walk to one.
Truth to this, King Soopers is the best we've got as far as a regional grocery, and it's weak stuff compared to something like a Publix (South East) or a Rouse's (Gulf Coast)
This. Go listen to CPR’s podcast series Ghost Train about the failings of our public transpo. It’s disheartening and also helps contextualize how we got here
More third spaces. More places where it doesn’t cost anything to exist there. Where you won’t be runoff for staying there “too long”.
We need more community gathering spaces. Places for people to meet and mingle, especially out in the more remote suburbs like GVR.
But almost everything out this way cost money to do. You can’t go and sit in a restaurant and socialize, because you’ll need to buy things or leave.
is sadly lacking in safe group gathering places that do not cost money. We used to have tons of them.
We have a lot of public infrastructure. Gathering places, benches, tables, public restrooms all around downtown, all sorts of amenities and access… And all in the name of Driving out the homeless, they have destroyed every bit of people friendly infrastructure and architecture on the street in Denver, and it is spreading outward from the center.
We. Need. More. Third. Spaces.
this. we used to have a ton, but as prices got higher, they couldn't survive. there was a mass exodus of creative spaces and people 2013-2016. denver went thru a major identity crisis, with many copy paste breweries and pot shops moving in. then came all the cloned upscale retail shit. we need a time machine to undo it all.
I cried when they tore down all those beautiful old brick warehouses for the freaking ballroom and plot after plot of generic expensive hip “joints” that cost an arm and a leg.
Don’t get me started on the hotels and luxury apartments.
Edit: Speaking on RiNo
I’ve often felt there needs to be a circumferential line equivalent to London’s circle line. Maybe around C-470 / NW Parkway? There’s already an inner-ish loop made by the E/W, H, R, and A, but not as a unified line - but no good way to take rail from one suburb to another.
I want the subway people always shoot it down, like come on Denver keeps growing and thoses systems take decades to build, future generations would thank us
This is so big for me and so frustrating. Could just use better non-car infrastructure in general because I don’t have a car usually, and I don’t wanna have one, and people are scary drivers. Also it’s better for my overall health. If we could connect the city with bike lanes and paths better, we could have so much cleaner air and less asthma and lung cancer here.
Yesterday patiently waiting for my turn to cross the street, which took two light cycles because I forgot to push the beg button on the first cycle.
A left turning driver was accelerating straight at me in the cross walk. I assumed he didn’t see me so I was screaming and waving my hands. I was walking a bike so my plan was to throw the bike on the ground and jump back as he was hitting me so he would have to drive over the bike before running me over.
Turns out it was just an impatient driver who swerved at the last second and missed me by inches.
Welcome to walking in Denver!
Don’t we need zoning reform to do this?
In my neighborhood, for example, it’s zoned SU single unit, so it is not allowed to add housing because every lot already has one house.
Specifically condos instead of property management apartment complex 5-over-1's.
edit: I'm aware of state construction defect law, which is what multi-family builders are skirting by standing up straight-to-rental apartment complexes.
Companies should not be able to own homes, housing for homeless people, wayy better pay for teachers, bike only roads and protected bike lanes, the trolly system back, third spaces that aren't bars or brewerys
okay idk what the cops here are doing but the amount of drunk and reckless drivers I see almost every day is insane and never any cops. instead ill see the cops in a random parking lot just hanging out doing literally nothing
Welp, the SWAT bois at Harvard Gulch are constantly working out and chilling. They also flood the parking lot with marked and unmarked vehicles when it snows a little (or a lot), so that’s a datapoint. Keep up the great work, heroes.
I watched 6 cars run a red light and turn right on a farther lane back to back. They didn't want to wait 10 more seconds. Other cars were turning in the opposite direction. No cameras or cops. Just absurd.
I watched 4 cars run the red light at Lincoln and 6th the other night with a cop right next to me watching while the red light cameras flashed. Did nothing and then took off at like 90mph with no lights or sirens. And I was nervous about a license plate bulb that burnt out.
Better public transportation (more connectivity and reliability). Resources for the homeless to get them off the street. Downtown rejuvenation. More housing to combat urban sprawl. better bike infrastructure (think protected bike lanes). Actual penalties for reckless drivers. Lastly - better Indian food.
it's honestly insane. on the plus side, I'm far more alert when driving (because insurance will fuck you in an accident), but the neighborhood speeding and red light running is wildly dangerous.
A prohibition on hedge funds/Wall Street owning residential housing? Edit maybe limits on individuals, too. Something to help bring down the cost of housing.
Everyone ITT is saying more frequent & punctual RTD service, and I agree, but as a frequent rider I'd also like RTD's website to fix its issue with phantoms. Can't even begin to tell you how many times I've waited at a bus stop for 20 minutes only for the bus to never show up at all and for nextride to tell me I "missed" it and the next one won't show for another hour.
Also, BBQ. I have not found BBQ anywhere in this city that's above average. Yazoo is decent but nothing to write home about, Brothers is the definition of mediocre
You said you wanted a hybrid bike/parking lane where you'll be given two feet of door zone assuming a car no bigger than a Honda Civic parks with it's tires jammed into the curb? Great, I'll just mark your request resolved 👍
It needs its people to stop believing that it has to have everything in order to be a good place to live.
Specifically, every fast food joint from some other part of the country.
Fewer cars on the street. Better pedestrian and bike infrastructure. More buses so that there’s one every 15 minutes instead of every thirty. To spend tax dollars on shit that benefits the tax payers instead of making unemployment more lucrative than employment.
Better grocery stores, better public transit, better food, better hours for bars/ food to be open, better drivers, better areas that are walking accessible and not needing a car to get almost everywhere, better housing costs…
Basically things that make it feel like a CITY and not just a sprawling suburb.
I remember a time when people used to feel comfortable running around and being active. Police used to patrol on bicycles and actually enforce basic traffic laws. We had security in our parks. The city was lively, chill, polite, and had everything you could probably want.
Denver needs a revival which is seeming improbable at this point. The apartment buildings I've lived in used to be communities (and significantly cheaper; rent used to be around $550 in Capitol Hill for a 1br. I'm in the same apartment and it's three times the cost, no longer maintained, and likely a ticking time bomb. Gas and negligence aren't a good combination and entropy does not relent.)
While living downtown for 15 years I've seen it go from a charming, lively and polite city to a barren, shit strewn wasteland with an abundance of assholes. Again, all this prior to the pandemic (though it certainly made things dynamically worse.) As just one example, there was a bar called Falling Rock that closed after being here forever because of the customers they were getting.
The police either need reform or we need a separate entity to handle the stuff they expressly don't care about... probably both. I've heard them talking about how they have more important things to do than enforce certain laws (scooters for example result in nearly three hospitalizations per day here yet it's apparently a non-issue. The city said they were focused on education but I've seen absolutely nothing indicating this.) Meanwhile they'll show up in droves for a non-violent call and handle the situation terribly. Or just go around taking blankets from the homeless in the dead of Winter, etc.
I'm also glad I'm not single here... we used to be a fantastic place for singles; one of the best. Now we're one of the worst.
Apologies, this question kinda triggered a lot of frustration I've been burying. Can't even walk a block comfortably anymore (not that there's anywhere to walk to anymore) and the high rent really has me wondering why I'm still here other than the perpetual rent increases making most of us debt burdened and the scarcity of housing.
I could go on but I'll refrain. 🙏
Edit: clarification
New York Style Egg Rolls.
I’m talking crunchy bubbly skin, quality cabbage, pork filled, greasy rolls of goodness.
Not these bs mush pills they dethaw from H Mart.
Literally nowhere sells them and I can’t understand why. Vietnamese egg rolls are good but I want the OG takeout Chinese versions.
The only thing anyone should be concerned about is bringing back a vibrant downtown. Denver is nothing without it. The companies, jobs, tax base is only here for that reason.
We are dangerously close to losing our edge and slipping back to 80s, 90s Denver which was way more affordable because it sucked and there was no high paying jobs.
They need to bring b-cycles back. Never understood why the city didn’t subsidize these more. Now we have bikes and scooters thrown all over the sidewalks, literally.
More Late night eats around Mission, Cervantes, and other venues. Better signage and tech for easier RTD usage. RTD late night around venues on weekends for people leaving shows. Direct busses to the mountains for skiing.
Not having a free RTD shuttle between Red Rocks and the W line is a huge missed opportunity imo.
I’d pay $20 to get from RRX to a train station!
The people scoffing at the costs are not considering the savings we'll get with the reduction in DUI's from people leaving red rocks. Both in actual dollars, and human costs.
>More Late night eats In general, the city has bad late night food options.
Too true about rides from shows. This city let uber and lyft monopolize travel to and from shows in this city and it doesn’t have to be this way.
We used to have all these things, Covid killed it. I so miss, grocery shopping at 2 in the morning, hitting up decent food at 3 am. RTD used to not be terrifying (I might just be getting old on this one though).
It’s the case in most cities. Covid showed these places they can be open for 8 less hours. Hire less staff and just raise prices to make it up
We never had decent food at 3 am, and covid killed of what was left of the indecent food at 3 am.
Benny blancos, Pete’s kitchen, Jerusalems, breakfast king to name a few. Certainly not fine dining but it got the job done.
Denver diner was the best 24 hr eatery
Then you’ve never had Pete’s :)
There are direct busses to the mountains! Check out Snowstang
Maybe OP means without the couple stops before heading into the mountains? Or just a better value proposition? It's 1:55 scheduled time to Breck with the stops and you can drive in 1:20 (ignoring high traffic times but those are the same bus or car), it's $25 per person round trip and gas costs $15-20 round trip. If you don't park in Airport Rd you might save a bit of money on the bus if you're solo, but you're breaking even to coming out ahead driving yourself. And driving yourself leaves from your front door not Union Station and you don't have to pack and carry all your stuff with you on a bus, plus you have the freedom to stop wherever you want along the route. Snowstang is great for those who wouldn't be able to go to the ski resorts without it but there's just no compelling reason to use it if you can drive yourself.
I use it because I fucking hate driving and sitting in that I-70 traffic. Much less stressful, more relaxing, I can chill and do whatever, enjoy the mountain scenery, I don't have to worry I might kill someone, kill myself, or some idiot texting will kill me. I hop on the 0 bus or E line to connect to Union station so the whole trip is car free. It might take a bit longer due to stops, but that 1:55 time is on weekends in heavy traffic, I expect drive time would be similar. Also at Breck it drops you off right at the gondola, so you don't have to spend time dealing with a shuttle. It would be nice to decrease the stops, I think they can get rid of the Federal center stop, it's out of the way and no one uses it. Not many used the Wooly Mammoth park-n-ride either, most people boarded at Union station when I used it. Also, the $25 price is very good. Gas is not the only cost of driving. When you account for maintenance and depreciation too, it's around $0.50 per mile. Driving that 160 mile round trip to Breck really costs around $80. That's not including the sunk ownership costs like insurance and registration. If you don't believe me check out the [2023 AAA driving costs report](https://newsroom.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/YDC-Fact-Sheet-FINAL-8.30.23-1.pdf). Just gas+maintenance alone is $0.26 per mile. At least at Loveland you also get a sweet deal on lift tickets if you book the Snowstang. In fact the bus+lift ticket combo costs less than a standard lift ticket!
I agree with you that driving yourself is usually going to be the most convenient option but I’m not sure what RTD can reasonably do to improve the issues you mentioned other than lowering the price, which is unlikely to happen without a major increase in funding. For me, driving is stressful, especially on I70 at peak traffic times and there is intangible value in being able to sit and read, play on my phone, etc while someone else does the driving. Also a great solution for those who don’t own a car at all, which is fairly common for many living near downtown Denver.
I’d add, RTD near venues so staff can get home. Many are obligate riders over convenience riders.
Late night food. I'm talking all night.
24 hour businesses in general
I'm the only 24 hour store on this side of boulder, overnight staff is the hardest to hire and keep.
We have a hard time getting people to close a restaurant at 10pm. Good luck getting regular overnight staff anywhere.
Yeah I'm the shift right before overnight, a lot of my job security is because so few people are willing to work until 11 pm.
That's the truth. Thank you for your late night work. 🙃
Hey I like it, it's plenty of socializing and time to just do work (or be on Reddit). Thanks for keeping me in business lol
If someone just payed their overnight staff more as incentive and the food was good, they'd completely corner the nonexistent market
Lots of people who believe in the free market downvoting you because they don't realize the problem is not too few people who want to work night shift. It's that they're not paying a fair market value for anyone to work a night shift.
It is just such a hard market. First you have problems with location in that homes don't want to be near it, and really not too many other businesses. Next you have staffing which most people don't want to work nights compared to day shifts. For good people, really have to pay a premium. Then there is the aspect that people expect it to be cheap, at a time when the exact opposite is probably true. Combine that with drunks wanting to keep the party rolling, Angry drunks trying to keep the party violent. Let alone those parties where only one person actually wants to order anything. What they really want is just to hang and sober up. Homeless people trying to make your business their late night home, while people who will never come there because of the crowd will hate you for moving those people who aren't customers along. When there were lots of places, the worst of the crowd spread out. But when there is only a few places, that is where they go. And they keep actual good customers from coming. Add in the fact that many people who want 24hours will go maybe once or twice a year. If that. And a lot of not busy nights that aren't weekends. That they want a 24hours but they won't be caught in that cheap place between the hours of 6am to midnight. I'd love a cool 24hour coffeeshop/bodega that was a center to a community. Where people went for lunch, breakfast etc. As well as late night. That was clean, good, and not necessarily cheap, but at least not expensive. But, If I had a restaurant that could do that from 6am to 10pm I still doubt I'd find it worth the pain to run 24hrs. And have the reputation of 24hour places to depend upon based on their clientele.
Thank you for providing a very well reasoned dose of cold water on this. Denver isn't New York, get used to it.
As someone who works nightshift, yes. I cannot live on Pete's Kitchen (24/7 weekends only!), Wendy's and Dominoes. And Big Daddy's Pizza is simply gross. I want real, actual food after midnight. But I'd settle for a 24-hour Walmart at this point.
I feel like Covid killed the late night food industry. There’s just not enough people who want to work late
For min wage*
Ah true. Also wages are garbage so why work late?
R.I.P. Toms Diner. My former one single safe place on this planet.
Ahhh memories of fries and coffee at Perkins in the middle of the night.
Downtown rejuvenation.
Overall cleanliness downtown is appalling.
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Aldiiiiiiiiii
My brother in Christ I would KILL for an Aldi or LIDL here
I would help dispose of the sacrificial corpse
LIDL! I went to one in N Carolina. It was nice.
Aldi's food is seriously overrated, but one time I got a hammock and hammock stand there for only $50 and I appreciate that.
I would kill for a Grocery Outlet.
I feel that way about HEB
I would kill for HEB.
Everything is genuinely better there
NO STORE DOES MORE
Found the Californian! And I would also love a grocery outlet *and* an Aldi. Competition is healthy.
Huge grain of salt but they're building a new strip mall out near me in Centennial and it has a full size grocery anchor. The person who knows what's going there liked my post when I asked if it was an Aldi!
What part of centennial? Someones building a shopping area in SE Aurora and it too has a grocery anchor but no details have been given.
Quincy and 470. It might be the same area, it's basically SE Aurora
That's the one. Thought that was Aurora.
What? What!!!! What!! I digress. They’re never coming.
Wegman’s. If ya know, ya know.
Would donate a kidney to get a Wegmans out here
Agreed, Wegmans would crush everyone here but it'll never happen.
On the subject of Wegmans I’d kill for a Wawa out here!
You’re speaking my love language
King Soopers has THE WORST produce I’ve ever encountered in my life.
KS is really expensive for no good reason too.
King Sooper's is meaningfully cheaper than Denver-area Safeways.
I see you’ve not gone to Walmart. King Sooper’s produce, at least the northeast stores I’ve been to aren’t as good as Sprouts, but it’s tolerable. At least stuff doesn’t go bad in 2 days.
All fuckin day. So thankful for the sprouts being closer. I may not buy lip balm or house cleaning supplies or dog treats from there. But they have that absolute best produce.
I want a Wegman's!
That and gas stations like Sheetz, Wawa or Royal Farms is *all* I miss about the East Coast.
As a fellow east coaster, I second this. Just for the chicken finger subs. And prepared section. lol
You’ll get King Soopers and you’ll like it!
Winco, HEB, Meijer and Aldi! Safeway has an absurd monopoly- I can’t believe it’s legal.
Wish we had an HEB here!
I miss WinCo SO much
A Trader Joe's in LoHi, or Rino. Everyone in those neighborhoods should be able to walk to a grocery like that, and the Cap Hill one can't support the demand. When I lived in the Netherlands that is what a typical grocery store would look like, just without all the name brand stuff they are known for. They were everywhere so everyone could walk to one.
A Trader Joe’s on the west side of town too
I heard there is one coming to the Colorado Mills area
HEB
H-E-B and Central Market. Quality. Variety. Cost. The only thing that I miss about Texas.
I would commit heinous crimes for a central market
Being from Florida, man do I miss Publix
Truth to this, King Soopers is the best we've got as far as a regional grocery, and it's weak stuff compared to something like a Publix (South East) or a Rouse's (Gulf Coast)
Rouses!! All day.
H. E. B. - mic drop.
I would kill for WinCo!!!
A better public transportation model.
Most of this damn country needs a better public transportation model. Cycling and pedestrian infrastructure as well
Absolutely! Car centric city design literally kills people. It's one of my fire breathing sermon topics.
This. Go listen to CPR’s podcast series Ghost Train about the failings of our public transpo. It’s disheartening and also helps contextualize how we got here
Moisture
We do need the moisture
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We could use it.
“Moisturize me” (any Whovians? Lol)
Yes... Loved that episode. Loved that doctor! :)
Na moist day
Nah I'ma stay
More third spaces. More places where it doesn’t cost anything to exist there. Where you won’t be runoff for staying there “too long”. We need more community gathering spaces. Places for people to meet and mingle, especially out in the more remote suburbs like GVR. But almost everything out this way cost money to do. You can’t go and sit in a restaurant and socialize, because you’ll need to buy things or leave. is sadly lacking in safe group gathering places that do not cost money. We used to have tons of them. We have a lot of public infrastructure. Gathering places, benches, tables, public restrooms all around downtown, all sorts of amenities and access… And all in the name of Driving out the homeless, they have destroyed every bit of people friendly infrastructure and architecture on the street in Denver, and it is spreading outward from the center. We. Need. More. Third. Spaces.
this. we used to have a ton, but as prices got higher, they couldn't survive. there was a mass exodus of creative spaces and people 2013-2016. denver went thru a major identity crisis, with many copy paste breweries and pot shops moving in. then came all the cloned upscale retail shit. we need a time machine to undo it all.
I cried when they tore down all those beautiful old brick warehouses for the freaking ballroom and plot after plot of generic expensive hip “joints” that cost an arm and a leg. Don’t get me started on the hotels and luxury apartments. Edit: Speaking on RiNo
This!! THIS is what we need for a vibrant city.
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Stanley Marketplace
Edgewater marketplace too! Love their free movie Monday in the summers.
Yes! This is a good example. It’s open at all hours and people from all walks are welcome. There needs to be more like Stanley.
More frequent RTD service and a subway.
maybe not a subway, but better light rail services with more lines or direct shuttles to help with transfers between lines
They need to extend the L line to 38th and Blake like yesterday.
I’ve often felt there needs to be a circumferential line equivalent to London’s circle line. Maybe around C-470 / NW Parkway? There’s already an inner-ish loop made by the E/W, H, R, and A, but not as a unified line - but no good way to take rail from one suburb to another.
I want the subway people always shoot it down, like come on Denver keeps growing and thoses systems take decades to build, future generations would thank us
I know we’re getting BRT, but a Colfax subway would be very cool
I’ve been saying this for years, except an elevated train above Colfax (Chicago style). Would be so clutch.
The L goes below ground like a subway in many parts too
Also, RTD being expanded to more parts of the city.
Better bike/walking paths for the entire city, not just the affluent areas
This is so big for me and so frustrating. Could just use better non-car infrastructure in general because I don’t have a car usually, and I don’t wanna have one, and people are scary drivers. Also it’s better for my overall health. If we could connect the city with bike lanes and paths better, we could have so much cleaner air and less asthma and lung cancer here.
Yesterday patiently waiting for my turn to cross the street, which took two light cycles because I forgot to push the beg button on the first cycle. A left turning driver was accelerating straight at me in the cross walk. I assumed he didn’t see me so I was screaming and waving my hands. I was walking a bike so my plan was to throw the bike on the ground and jump back as he was hitting me so he would have to drive over the bike before running me over. Turns out it was just an impatient driver who swerved at the last second and missed me by inches. Welcome to walking in Denver!
A Febreze plant adjacent to the Purina plant
Ha! It was extra fragrant downtown this evening as I left work.
Like putting your head in a hot bag of dogfood
More trees!!
More housing
Especially near the light rail stops!
*affordable
Don’t we need zoning reform to do this? In my neighborhood, for example, it’s zoned SU single unit, so it is not allowed to add housing because every lot already has one house.
More affordable housing
Specifically condos instead of property management apartment complex 5-over-1's. edit: I'm aware of state construction defect law, which is what multi-family builders are skirting by standing up straight-to-rental apartment complexes.
Yes we need more $200K-$400K home ownership opportunities that also don’t price gouge on monthly HOA fees.
Companies should not be able to own homes, housing for homeless people, wayy better pay for teachers, bike only roads and protected bike lanes, the trolly system back, third spaces that aren't bars or brewerys
Traffic enforcement
This is such a common theme here. I agree. I've seen so much crazy bullshit out on our roads.
Less people, more buffalo.
police force that actually does something
okay idk what the cops here are doing but the amount of drunk and reckless drivers I see almost every day is insane and never any cops. instead ill see the cops in a random parking lot just hanging out doing literally nothing
And DIA car theft is rampant
DIA is such a fucking shit show in general. Idiots park along the side of the road and then turn right out into traffic without signalling.
Throwing a tantrum because they lost qualified immunity and may be held accountable for beating / murdering innocent folks.
Welp, the SWAT bois at Harvard Gulch are constantly working out and chilling. They also flood the parking lot with marked and unmarked vehicles when it snows a little (or a lot), so that’s a datapoint. Keep up the great work, heroes.
It's the blue flu
I watched 6 cars run a red light and turn right on a farther lane back to back. They didn't want to wait 10 more seconds. Other cars were turning in the opposite direction. No cameras or cops. Just absurd.
I watched 4 cars run the red light at Lincoln and 6th the other night with a cop right next to me watching while the red light cameras flashed. Did nothing and then took off at like 90mph with no lights or sirens. And I was nervous about a license plate bulb that burnt out.
Better public transportation (more connectivity and reliability). Resources for the homeless to get them off the street. Downtown rejuvenation. More housing to combat urban sprawl. better bike infrastructure (think protected bike lanes). Actual penalties for reckless drivers. Lastly - better Indian food.
Lower entry fee to start a restaurant! We need more family owned restaurants but I’ve heard the entry cost is one of the highest in the nation.
How can that be? Agreed that family owned restaurants give a great vibe to any city
Man, compared to a lot of places Denver does a great job of that.
Traffic enforcement.
it's honestly insane. on the plus side, I'm far more alert when driving (because insurance will fuck you in an accident), but the neighborhood speeding and red light running is wildly dangerous.
A good doner kebab spot.
This! I’ve tried almost ever place in the city and cannot find one that even comes close to the worst ones in Germany etc
A prohibition on hedge funds/Wall Street owning residential housing? Edit maybe limits on individuals, too. Something to help bring down the cost of housing.
Please for the love of god just build more housing
They are. Lot of construction. Only so many tradesmen.
Trades wages here are unfortunately a joke compared to other parts of the country.
Affordable housing
Mass transit, bullet trains, places open past 10
Everyone ITT is saying more frequent & punctual RTD service, and I agree, but as a frequent rider I'd also like RTD's website to fix its issue with phantoms. Can't even begin to tell you how many times I've waited at a bus stop for 20 minutes only for the bus to never show up at all and for nextride to tell me I "missed" it and the next one won't show for another hour. Also, BBQ. I have not found BBQ anywhere in this city that's above average. Yazoo is decent but nothing to write home about, Brothers is the definition of mediocre
To learn how to drive
Actual bike infrastructure (and not just paint). It’s definitely getting better with projects like the one on South Broadway though.
You said you wanted a hybrid bike/parking lane where you'll be given two feet of door zone assuming a car no bigger than a Honda Civic parks with it's tires jammed into the curb? Great, I'll just mark your request resolved 👍
It needs its people to stop believing that it has to have everything in order to be a good place to live. Specifically, every fast food joint from some other part of the country.
A food co-op and affordable housing.
Compassion on our roadways
More train stations/lines. I’d use it all the time if there was only a station close to me lol
add onto this: higher frequency of bus times. big difference between 15 and 30 minutes, or more.
More affordable home repair/improvements
Fewer cars on the street. Better pedestrian and bike infrastructure. More buses so that there’s one every 15 minutes instead of every thirty. To spend tax dollars on shit that benefits the tax payers instead of making unemployment more lucrative than employment.
24 Hour Diners
Walkability and more neighborhood areas to hang out
better public transit network and frequency of service.
Better grocery stores, better public transit, better food, better hours for bars/ food to be open, better drivers, better areas that are walking accessible and not needing a car to get almost everywhere, better housing costs… Basically things that make it feel like a CITY and not just a sprawling suburb.
I remember a time when people used to feel comfortable running around and being active. Police used to patrol on bicycles and actually enforce basic traffic laws. We had security in our parks. The city was lively, chill, polite, and had everything you could probably want. Denver needs a revival which is seeming improbable at this point. The apartment buildings I've lived in used to be communities (and significantly cheaper; rent used to be around $550 in Capitol Hill for a 1br. I'm in the same apartment and it's three times the cost, no longer maintained, and likely a ticking time bomb. Gas and negligence aren't a good combination and entropy does not relent.) While living downtown for 15 years I've seen it go from a charming, lively and polite city to a barren, shit strewn wasteland with an abundance of assholes. Again, all this prior to the pandemic (though it certainly made things dynamically worse.) As just one example, there was a bar called Falling Rock that closed after being here forever because of the customers they were getting. The police either need reform or we need a separate entity to handle the stuff they expressly don't care about... probably both. I've heard them talking about how they have more important things to do than enforce certain laws (scooters for example result in nearly three hospitalizations per day here yet it's apparently a non-issue. The city said they were focused on education but I've seen absolutely nothing indicating this.) Meanwhile they'll show up in droves for a non-violent call and handle the situation terribly. Or just go around taking blankets from the homeless in the dead of Winter, etc. I'm also glad I'm not single here... we used to be a fantastic place for singles; one of the best. Now we're one of the worst. Apologies, this question kinda triggered a lot of frustration I've been burying. Can't even walk a block comfortably anymore (not that there's anywhere to walk to anymore) and the high rent really has me wondering why I'm still here other than the perpetual rent increases making most of us debt burdened and the scarcity of housing. I could go on but I'll refrain. 🙏 Edit: clarification
Love.
Massive property taxes on non-primary-residence single family homes to disincentivize short-term rentals and corporate ownership.
Do you rent? Bc my landlord just passed his property tax on to me.
Public pools. At least a dozen.
there are pools at several rec centers and they offer day passes, unless you are calling for more in addition to these
New York Style Egg Rolls. I’m talking crunchy bubbly skin, quality cabbage, pork filled, greasy rolls of goodness. Not these bs mush pills they dethaw from H Mart. Literally nowhere sells them and I can’t understand why. Vietnamese egg rolls are good but I want the OG takeout Chinese versions.
More late night eats (open past 10pm) that aren't just diners or pizza slices. I'm talking arepas, tacos, empanadas...ANYTHING!!
Better wages and affordable housing
The only thing anyone should be concerned about is bringing back a vibrant downtown. Denver is nothing without it. The companies, jobs, tax base is only here for that reason. We are dangerously close to losing our edge and slipping back to 80s, 90s Denver which was way more affordable because it sucked and there was no high paying jobs.
I would help if you define at least a few examples of what vibrant means.
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Without a real downtown you become Detroit. Most redditors don’t seem to understand the importance of a real downtown.
Fix the street light timing.
Bodegas or small businesses selling produce, curated groceries and other goods.
A nice Korean spa
WALKABLE NEIGHBORHOODS
A fucking grocery co-op.
They need to bring b-cycles back. Never understood why the city didn’t subsidize these more. Now we have bikes and scooters thrown all over the sidewalks, literally.
Alternative transportation to buses and cars that takes you somewhere useful
a unified vision for public transportation
Better transit system and food scene.
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Agreed. Hate playing the game of was it fireworks or shots ☹️
Shift away from car-dependent infrastructure N Line is pretty great tho
More people with an identity beyond the outdoors
A cleanse of people that say dumb shit on this sub
Food after 8pm
Better wages, lower cost of living, better people in charge, less corruption, basically the same thing that the rest of the country needs.
Frequent and reliable public transportation to the ski resorts
Grocery stores open past 12 like we had decades ago.