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43 Days out from Opening Day and the Lakewood-Wadsworth Park-n-Ride has an official Google address of 1350 Wadsworth Blvd., Lakewood Colorado 80214 for the whole world to pay us a visit via Street map or Satellite. View is looking west along 14th Ave at Wadsworth Blvd.
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THE BACK FENCE NEWSLETTER
Will Cease Publication on April 25, 2013.
There Are 6 Editions Left.
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The Newsletter Featuring Livable Community Items That Readers Value and Highlights of Happenings Along the West Corridor on the RTD W Rail Line Serving Golden, Lakewood & Denver, Colorado.
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The "W" Line Opens in:
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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 the Weekly Edition, March 14, 2013. |
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West Corridor, Denver & Region
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The folks at the West Corridor Historical Rail Project want to invite you to ride the W line before it opens to the jam-packed, free-riding public on April 27th and help keep history alive as well for a mere pittance of $25 a seat - Hey, this includes continental breakfast, a slide show lecture and souvenir ride ticket!
Ride the West Rail Line on Saturday, April 20, 8:30am
Be one of the first to ride the W Line before it opens to the public. Join the WCHRP in celebrating over 100 years of history as you journey down the modern version of the route once serviced by Car 25. Tickets will go on-sale at 12:01 am this Friday, March 15. There are a limited number of tickets, so be sure to purchase yours early!
Note to below:There appears to be one change about one Call-n-Ride - see if you can find it.
Final West Rail Line Service and April Service Changes
Effective April 28, 2013
RTD's West Rail Line, connecting downtown Denver, Lakewood, and Golden...to transform the way you live, work, and make connections.
TheDenverPost
RTD's West Rail Line Nets National Award By Monte Whaley, Mar 11 2013
The soon-to-be opened West Rail Line project that will link downtown Denver with Jefferson County has already won a national award. The Associated General Contractors of America - also known as AGC - last week named the West Rail Line one of the most significant construction projects of 2012.
Advertise Special Buses With a Special Brand
By Dan Malouff on March 11, 2013
RTD has a great network of frequent bus routes that are much more convenient than the average bus line. Unfortunately, most people can't tell the frequent routes from the regular ones. A map highlighting the best lines can help, but combining the map with a special brand for the routes shown on it would be even better.
From the City of Lakewood Colorado Friday Report, March 8 2013 Charging Station for Electric Cars Opens at Lakewood, Colorado City Hall Lakewood Colorado has taken another "green" step by opening a charging station for electric cars at the City Hall complex, 480 S. Allison Parkway. "Lakewood is committed to our sustainability initiatives and to working with partners throughout the region to best serve our residents," said Sustainability Division Manager Erich Harris. "The number of electric cars is rapidly expanding in the Denver metro area, and we wanted to get a head start on installing these stations." The station is located on the upper parking deck of City Hall along the west side of the Lakewood Cultural Center.
For more information about Lakewood Colorado's sustainability work,
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National
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TheAtlanticCities
The End of Federal Transportation Funding as We Know It
By Eric Jaffe, Mar 11 2013
This month marks 120 years since the federal government got involved in funding road transportation... The original Office of Road Inquiry - today, the Federal Highway Administration - was a line item with a budget of $10,000. That was only enough money to build about three miles of road, and the office wasn't empowered to build roads anyway, but states fought tooth and nail against giving the feds even this incredibly modest level of transport oversight.
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DC.StreetsBlog
Senate Restores MAP-21 Funding Through 2013
By Angie Schmitt, Mar 13 2013
The Senate yesterday restored hundreds of millions of dollars in federal transportation spending singled out for elimination by the House of Representatives.
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Blog.WalkScore
Seniors: Walkability Benefits for an Aging Public
By Jocelyn Milici Ceder, Mar 12 2013
...A growing body of research points to the importance of designing or retrofitting communities for walkability to accommodate senior citizens and allow them to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle upon retirement. Walkable neighborhoods help seniors remain active, healthy, social and free to move around. How?
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TheNewYorkTimes
For Modern Retirees, There's No Place Like Home
By Keith Schneider, Mar 12 2013
Influenced by long-term trends in housing design, communications technology, medical care and the expectations of the largest retiree generation in United States history, the outlines of the next era of American retirement are gaining clarity across the country.
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TheNewYorkTimes
In Retiree Housing, Talking About Multigenerations
By Phyllis Korkki, Mar 12 2013
There seems to be a rule that if retirees move to a communal environment, it must consist only of other retirees. But some older adults are challenging that notion by choosing intergenerational cohousing, living side by side with people of all other ages, including singles, childless couples and families with children. READ MORE...
TheAtlanticCities
Jane Jacobs Was Right: Gradual Redevelopment Does Promote Community
By Eric Jaffe, Mar 08 2013
In her 1961 classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs opposed what she called "one size fits all" planning. This idea of letting a mixture of land uses and housing styles evolve over time set her in contrast with the approaches of Ebenezer Howard, Le Corbusier, and Robert Moses, who preferred to redevelop large swaths of the city at once. On the contrary, wrote Jacobs, healthy neighborhoods must "mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones."
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TheAtlanticCities
Want to Show People the Benefits of Transit? Build a Pretend Train Station
Henry Grabar, Mar 08 2013
Good luck navigating Miami without a car. Despite the construction of one heavy rail line (with an airport fork) and a downtown monorail, mass transit in the city remains, in the words of the Miami Herald, "a haphazard, disappointing mess." And there's no singing allowed.
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DC.StreetsBlog
Congress Comes to the Bike Summit (and the Bike Summit Goes to Congress)
By Tanya Snyder, Mar 07 2013
Tuesday morning, Rep. Earl Blumenauer took his usual place behind the podium at the National Bike Summit.
DC.StreetsBlog Bicycling Means Business: How Cycling Enriches People and Cities
By Tanya Snyder, Mar 08 2013 If bicyclists want to convince policymakers of the benefits of cycling, they need to stop talking about cycling. That was one major lesson of this year's National Bike Summit, thanks to some strategic research done by a friendly consultant. So the Summit's theme was "Bicycling Means Business" - and the economic impacts of a healthy cycling culture don't end with the cyclist. READ MORE...
DC.StreetsBlog There's Never Any Shortage of Calls to Make Amtrak Pay for Itself.
By Angie Schmitt, Mar 12 2013 Republicans deride it as a "Soviet-style monopoly," rife with inefficiencies. But as Ed Glaeser pointed out in an article for the Boston Globe last week, another mode's subsidies are approved year after year without a peep: aviation. READ MORE...
TheNewYorkTimes/opinion Living With Less. A Lot Less.
By Graham Hill, Mar 09 2013 I LIVE in a 420-square-foot studio. I sleep in a bed that folds down from the wall. I have six dress shirts. I have 10 shallow bowls that I use for salads and main dishes. When people come over for dinner, I pull out my extendable dining room table. I don't have a single CD or DVD and I have 10 percent of the books I once did.
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GreenLaneProject Portland Retailers Swoop into Storefronts Along Bikeways
By Michael Andersen, Mar 04 2013 Bikes, it turns out, seem to be a perfect way to get people to the few retail categories that are thriving in the age of mail-order everything: bars, restaurants and personal services. And in Portland, where an early investment in basic bikeways has made bikes a popular way to run errands, retailers are responding by snapping up strorefronts with good bike exposure.
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GristDotOrg Solar Power Set to Shine in 2013 By John Upton, Mar 13 2013 This year is shaping up to be a bright one for solar power. New solar generating capacity expected to be installed around the world in 2013 will be capable of producing almost as much electricity as eight nuclear reactors, according to Bloomberg, which interviewed seven analysts and averaged their forecasts. READ MORE...
TheAtlanticCities
The Streetlight of the Future Will Do So Much More Than Light Your Street
By Emily Badger
Back in 2011, the city of Chattanooga was having serious problems with gang violence in one of its more prominent downtown parks, Coolidge Park (to a point, in fact, where local police tried banning unaccompanied minors there).
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GristDotOrg
Those Lucky Jerks in London Are Getting a Frickin' Bicycle Highway By Sarah Laskow, Mar 11 2013
London may be the world's newest best cycling city. Mayor Boris Johnson has announced that the city will be spending a whopping $1.51 billion on better bike infrastructure - including a 15-mile bicycle highway that will connect the west and east sections of the city.
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Weekly Film (If available)
Published on Mar 13, 2013
The Science of a Successful Airport By DenversAirport
Intro Video to the fifth annual State of DIA event held Tuesday March 12, 2013 at the Denver Performing Arts Complex
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Things you need to know along the West Corridor
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GRAND RE-OPENING GALA FUNDRAISER
Join us on March 15, 2013 for our gala fundraising event for the RE-OPENING of The Edge Theater
7:00pm Catered Reception and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
8:30pm The Regional Premier of David Mamet's Race
10:00pm After Party
DenverInfill's Union Station Walking Tours to Resume March 16 2013 -- 3:00pm! Meet in Union Station Light Rail Plaza by the three concrete stacks
After leading 17 walking tours of the Denver Union Station project in 2012, I decided to take a break over the past few months. However, I'm now ready to get our 2013 tours underway. There is a LOT going on at Denver Union Station, so 2013 should be a fun year and the last full year of construction before the project opens in 2014! Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 16 at 3:00pm for our first tour of the new year. A few days before then, I'll post an official tour notice here on the blog.
As always, check the DenverInfill blog on Monday or Tuesday of the week in question for a post confirming the next tour date and time. Again this year, the tours are free and open to the public, but donations will be accepted at the end of the tour, with all proceeds going to the non-profit Student Chapter of the American Planning Association at the University of Colorado Denver.
>Lakewood, Saturday, March 16 2013, 9:00am to 10:15am
City of Lakewood, Colorado City Council members Ramey Johnson and Karen Kellen for Ward 1, will meet with residents and considerate guests for their monthly outreach meeting. The future light rail line traverses the northern section of their ward. The Council Members will host Colorado Transportation Commissioner Ed Peterson. 40 West Arts District Office, 1560 Teller Street, Lakewood Co. 80214
>Lakewood, Tuesday, March 19 2013 6:00pm to 8pm
Cops, Council, and Community
The Lakewood Colorado Police will co-host a Cops, Council, and Community outreach discussion and talk. All are invited. Subject for this month? Traffic Engineering & Lakewood Police Department Traffic Team.
Clements Community Center, 1560 Teller Street, Lakewood Co. 80214,
Hey, Hey, Hey! Come one, Come All
on Opening Day, April 27, 2013
to all the 11 Stations and 11 parties being held along the entire West Corridor W Line from downtown Denver Union Station to the Golden Jeffco Station! Click Fastrack Freddie's Logo to learn more and start marking your calendars!
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[Note to below: I'm enclosing the full text of one section from a Friday Report from the City of Lakewood because it involves an important built environment connectivity change along the West Corridor adjacent to the West Rail Line.]
Preparing for a roundabout
The City received funding, including a $1 million grant from the state, to build a roundabout at the intersection of Lamar Street and West 14th Avenue and to add a section of sidewalk and bicycle lanes. The work will improve safety at the intersection and provide better access for pedestrians and bicyclists to the upcoming Lamar Station for the West Rail Line. This intersection has an unusually high rate of accidents, and they are some of the most dangerous kind, which are collisions at a right angle. The roundabout will eliminate these kinds of accidents and slow vehicles in the intersection. Properly designing the improvements to match the surrounding area will require collecting land survey information along 14th for 400 feet east and west of Lamar and along Lamar for 400 feet north of 14th to south of West 13th Avenue. The City needs residents' help by allowing surveyors to collect information on their property. Residents with concerns can contact Ken Nyhoff, Lakewood's engineer for the project, at (303) 987-7939/kennyh@lakewood.orgAdded Information. See the short video below
How to use a roundabout Michagan DOT Aug 10 2011  | |
How to use a roundabout
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Denver Union 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.
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>4917 West 11th Ave Assemblage [sold]
Sold, See Press Release
>10th Avenue Light Rail Assemblage
>1010 Sheridan Blvd TOD Site
>5310 West 10th Ave TOD opportunity
>13th Ave & Newland, Ideal TOD property
>5830 West Colfax Ave
1025 Ammons St. Complex - Sold
>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.
West Corridor Vision
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Residential Real Estate Agents
who get the "big picture" of
transit-oriented living of
walkable, sustainable
neighborhoods.
JIM SMITH REALTOR, GOLDEN
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Things You Need to Know Around the Region
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National Adaptation Forum
Action Today for a Better Tomorrow
Denver Marriott City Center, Denver Colorado, April 2-4 2013
You are invited to be a part of the Inaugural National Adaptation Forum: Action today for a better tomorrow. Please join us as we kick-off the inaugural convening of adaptation practitioners and experts from around the country focused on moving from adaptation planning to adaptation action.
What is the National Adaptation Forum?
The National Adaptation Forum is a national event on climate change adaptation at which the latest scientific knowledge about climate adaptation and state-of-the-art practices will be presented. It combines professional development training, individual presentation, peer networking, and working group innovation opportunities, in order to create the most productive event possible in three days!
Click Here to Learn More & Register
Colorado Foundation for Water Education - 2013 Tours!
CFWE hosts tours of Colorado's agriculture, river restoration and much more! Save the date for this upcoming tour - registration will be available two months before tour date. To be placed on a priority list, send your interest to Kristin Maharg at kristin@yourwatercolorado.org to be notified as soon as registration becomes available.
May 2 and 16: Explore how waterways are managed, restored and protected on an Urban Waters Bike Tour in Denver.
For more information: Click Here
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