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- From: clbs@oscar (Christopher Pounds)
- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Subject: Re: Transit system in Seattle (Re: Following distance Was (Re: Why CAN'T people drive 55?!))
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:12:19 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- dxxb@hardy.u.washington.edu (David Barts) writes:
- : I got to Denver and "WHAT?!? Only ONE lousy bus route nearby with
- : at least NINETY minutes between each bus? And NO express routes
- : to downtown at all??" Needless to say, I rented a car the next
- : day.
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- Although Denver is not on a par with Portland or even Seattle, it does
- have express bus service and many main arteries have busses come by
- every 30 minutes during the day. I took an express bus from the
- University of Denver into downtown every morning in about the same
- amount of time that it would take to drive it.
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- The problem that I had with Denver's service was that only one bus
- serviced the Denver Technical Center/Inverness--a light industry
- business park on the southern edge of the metro area--and its last run
- was at 5:45. The suburbs also did not have the bus service that is
- needed to make them viable.
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- For a city with brown skies, Denver has a lot of work to do to clean
- up its transit system.
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- Chris Pounds
- clbs@stat.washington.edu
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