Short trip options

Posted on May 4, 2008 at 5:16 p.m. by Jill.

Just back from several days in downtown Denver, I'm still marveling over the free (free! really!) electric transit on 16th Street that takes you from downtown to the Lower Denver neighborhood. At street level, it's a constant reminder of the mass transit option, unlike Chicago's subways and elevateds.

And given that the ride is free, it would make you feel dumb to instead drive and pay for parking.

I don't live there, of course, so I don't know what boneheaded things the city government has done; but I do know that as a visitor I was impressed both by it and the Cherry Creek bike path, which pretty much took me where I needed to go.