"A few days ago, I needed to go into downtown Denver for a meeting.
This was somewhat complicated because I don’t currently have a working car, something that’s possible because I work at home, and Walmart delivers groceries.
(It’s called Walmart To Go, and I really do like the service.)
The People Who Know Better About Everything have been developing a massive mass-transit system for the Denver area for, I don’t know, maybe 30 years, and with a massive construction program with light rail that is supposed to make everything wonderful.
Well, it’s about a half hour drive from my home to my meeting.
By “efficient, cheap, comfortable, and environmentally friendly” mass transit, the trip is nearly 3 hours: first I’d walk about 2 miles to catch a feeder bus into Boulder, then I’d catch the express bus to Denver, then I’d catch the 16th Street Mall bus to about 4 blocks from my destination and walk the rest of the way.
...“Efficient” is right out, not with a three hour commute one way.
“Comfortable,” well, have you ridden a bus recently?
And I’ve very very suspicious about the “environmentally friendly” part, because in order to have even faintly adequate service, most buses run nearly empty most of the time.
It would be interesting to compute just what the actual carbon release is per passenger mile..."
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