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THE BACK FENCE NEWSLETTER
The Newsletter Featuring Livable Community Items That Readers Value and Highlights of Happenings Along the West Corridor on the RTD West Rail Line Serving Golden, Lakewood & Denver. |
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Hi Everyone! This is Bill Spriggs and I have found several news articles, links and blogs that I wanted to share along THE BACK FENCE & beyond in this Wednesday Edition, June 20, 2012. |
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West Corridor, Denver & Region
| TheDenverPost/Guest Commentary Commuter Rail Service in Colorado is the Public's Decision By Steve Fosberg, Jun 20, 2012 The Denver Post's stories about the cost estimates that Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway provided to the Regional Transportation District for the Northwest FasTracks corridor and our relationship with commuter rail reflect common misunderstandings about such projects.
BoulderDailyCamera.com
Boulder's Boom: More Than 30 Building Projects on Tap For Next 2 Years
By Alicia Wallce, June 18, 2012 The developments that are expected to come online within the next two years are on track to add 1,500 apartments, a few hundred new hotel rooms and a large volume of new office and retail space.
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Boehner, Reid Fail to Break Transport Bill Deadlock By David Lawder and Roberta Rampton, Jun 20, 2012 U.S. congressional leaders failed on Tuesday to break a deadlock on a long-stalled transportation funding measure, and Republicans may now have to detach from the bill approval of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline and find another vehicle for that project.
READ MORE...
DC.StreetsBlog.org
Extension(s) Imminent - a Reflection on Neverending Transpo Gridlock
By Ben Goldman, Jun 19, 2012
For the past six months, I have had the enviable task (seriously) of tracing the path of federal transportation legislation through Congress. And look how far we've come! When I first took the editor's chair in January, transportation funds were drying up, the deadline for a new bill was fast approaching, and none of the news made Congress look good. Today, essentially, nothing has changed, except everything is somehow even worse.
TheHill.com
Highway Spending Bill Running Out of Gas, as House, Senate Negotiations Stall
By Keith Laing, Jun 17, 2012 Advocates for a new federal transportation bill think even bumping negotiations up to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) may not be enough to save the measure from this year's legislative scrapheap.
Salon.com
Stop Thinking Big By Will Doig, Jun 16, 2012 Forget stadiums: Let's build a pop-up park. Smart cities know the future is cooler, cheaper -- and smaller.
READ MORE...TheAtlanticCities.com
How Cities Can Help Fight Obesity
By Kaid Benfield, Jun 19, 2012
On Sundays in Ferguson, Missouri, the community encourages kids to play in the streets by closing them off to cars and turning them into temporary "parkways." Streets are closed in different neighborhoods each week as part of the city's "live Well" initiative for health. This is a great idea: studies show that children with regular access to parks and outdoor space have lower prevalence of obesity by 20 percent. READ MORE...GreaterGreaterWashington.org
Apple Dropping Google Transit is Actually Good For Transit By Kevin Webb, Jun 16, 2012 To the disappointment of many, Apple's new iOS 6 won't include the Google Maps app, which means iPhone and iPad users won't have access to Google's transit directions. Future iOS users will need to install third-party apps for transit information.
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TheAtlanticCities.com
What's Your Mobility Biography? Eric Jaffe, Jun 18, 2012
Nobody gets up in the morning and thoroughly considers every available transportation option before deciding how to travel that day. Yet, too often, that's how transportation researchers assume people operate: with an impossible degree of objectivity, rationality, and behavioral isolation. In reality, how we move in and around the city is influenced less by short-term choices and more by long-term events like getting a job, starting a family, or moving homes.
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Yell Like Your Hair's on Fire and 5 More Urban Cycling Tips By Slava Menn, Jun 18, 2012 When I was seventeen, I watched my father get hit by a car. He recovered, but I've had a fear of cars ever since. Ironically, I love city cycling. I love out-running city busses, flying between rows of traffic, and parking wherever I damn please. City cycling makes me feel free.READ MORE...Grist.org
Got food scraps? Hail a
'Compost Cab'
By Meody Wilson, Jun 14, 2012
Jeremy Brosowsky was in a Milwaukee greenhouse in March 2010 when he had an epiphany: "What if we could take our garbage and grow food in it?"
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International (when available)
| DenverPost/AssocPress
New Olympic Challenge: Bike Riding Through London By Thomas Wagner, Jun 20, 2012
Like a runner or a swimmer, you would need to be physically fit. Like a goalie or a boxer, you should be prepared for close calls. But if you are coming to London's Summer Olympics-and you have what it takes-using a bicycle could be a great option in a city bracing for gridlock.
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YouTube.com
Ultimate Commuter Bike
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Ultimate Commuter Bike
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Things you need to know along the West Corridor
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>Denver Union Station Historic Summer Tours, June 28, July 12, & July 26, 2012 at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
The Denver Union Station Project Authority (DUSPA) will be conducting free guided tours of the Denver Union Station redevelopment site this summer. This guided tour will emphasis the early station history and famous travelers who visited Denver by Train. The tour will also tell visitors about all the exciting new features that will soon be part of, and surround, the historic station. The one-hour tour will start inside the Great Train Hall at the historic station, 1701 Wynkoop Street. Participation is limited to 35 people per tour. To reserve your spot, visit. RSVP here [Scroll down on left]
[Note: in just 11 short months West Corridor residents will be able bike to a West Rail Line station, jump on board with their bikes, get off at Union Station & cycle just six blocks to Coors Field and LEAVE THE CAR BEHIND. But until then, those of you adventurous souls who can commute to downtown, check out the facilities in place this year.] 
2012 schedule of Ride to the Rockies Games July 01, Aug 05, & Sept 02. All games are Sunday Day games. Over the course of 20 games this season the Rockies along with media partners ROOT SPORTS, 850 KOA and The Denver Post will once again be enlisting players and fans toward making a positive impact on the environment through the 2012 Games of Green initiative. NEXT BIKE TO THE GAME! WHEN: Sunday, June 03, for the game against the LA Dodgers. Bike lot opens at 11:30 a.m. and closes 10 minutes after the game ends.
WHERE: Coors Field, the special Bike to the Game secure parking lot at 21st and Blake St., across from Gate C.
WHAT: Check in at the Bike to the Game Tent at the entrance to the bike lot at 21st and Blake to enter a drawing for great prizes, like a Rockies Batting Practice experience, Rockies tickets, autographed items and more. >Lakewood/Denver, Friday, June 29, 2012 9:30am
Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Sheridan Parking Structure!
9:30am on the NW corner of 10th Avenue and Sheridan Blvd.
Speakers at the event: Mayor Michael B. Hancock; RTD General Manager Phil Washington; ULC Real Estate Manager Debra Bustos; RTD Board Member, Angie Malpiede; and Scott Conrad. The very popular RTD West Corridor bus tours are back!! All tours will be from 9am to 11am on the 3rd Friday of the month (July thru Sept). Each reservation that is made is for one seat only; please sign-up all attendees individually. You will receive e-mail confirmation within one week of your registration. Click here to register
AUGUST 20-26th, 2012
SEPTEMBER 21-23RD, 2012
Denver Union Station
Construction Cam
Golden Jeffco Station
Construction Cam
Wish You Could Find an Apartment/Condo near a Light Rail Station? As part of TBF's continuing efforts to bring TOD's to the West Corridor & elsewhere, this link from Walk Score.com will now be a permanent feature. Thanks. |
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Commercial Real Estate Assemblages, Land or Buildings Available on The West Corridor
Please note: TBF does not
own or sell any real property.
Prices displayed may not be correct.
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>4917 West 11th Ave Assemblage
>10th Avenue Light Rail Assemblage
>1010 Sheridan Blvd TOD Site
>13th Avenue & Newland St., Light Rail Vacant Land
>5830 West Colfax Ave
>1025 Ammons Complex
>6990 West Colfax Ave Pad Site
THE BACK FENCE supports a corridor wide, regional vision, with individual nodes of unique "places" within that corridor. We hope that the listing of commercial properties available will help to speed this vision to fruition sooner. Learn more about this vision below from the Center for Transit-Oriented Development.
RTD West Rail Line video flyover (entire line from Union Station to the Golden Jeffco Station.
West Corridor Vision
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Things You Need to Know Around the Region
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>What is the Better Block?
The "Better Block" project is a community revitalization effort that temporarily demonstrates how to improve a street with pedestrian and public infrastructure mixed with art, culture, pop-up businesses and street life. For one day, the project will fill vacant storefronts, create pedestrian seating areas, provide landscaping and street furniture, redraw the street, provide live music, and more. Better Block aims to create quick, inexpensive, high-impact changes that lead to permanent solutions for areas in Denver.
>Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Bike to Work Day in the Denver Region Get set to win prizes for individual and business challenge categories.
Pedal to Work instead of driving the old burdenmobile.
Remember: A bicycle burn fat and saves you money
A Car burns money and makes you fat. Click here to learn more. |
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| The opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of William A. Spriggs and no one else. |
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