On: How Denver Is Becoming the Most Advanced Transit City in the West

[kposehn]

The Northwest line is already under construction to Arvada, correct? I believe they are working westward right now.

As for the line up to Boulder, blame the expense of building a completely separate right-of-way along the BNSF Brush Subdivision, a very busy funnel for coal trains :-/

[bri3d → kposehn]

"South Westminster" - basically, 72nd and Federal.

They weren't trying to build separate right-of-way - they were trying to lease the existing BNSF tracks:

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_20782125/rtd-stunned-by-bnsfs-c...

You're right that the busy freight corridor is a lot of the problem, though.

[blackaspen → kposehn]

There is a separate line to Arvada, I believe it's the Gold line. That's still on track.