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The Colorado Boulevard bus rapid transit project is slated to stretch 7 miles if it\u2019s built \u2014 and right in the middle of that span sits the city of Glendale.<\/p>\n

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The community of 4,500, which is completely surrounded by Denver, is feeling squeezed by the transit-oriented proposal.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Glendale\u2019s City Council passed a resolution urging the \u201cno-build\u201d option for the project. The resolution states that the traffic impacts on drivers from eliminating general-purpose vehicle lanes and turning them into bus-only lanes \u201csignificantly outweigh the meager forecasted increases in bus travel times and ridership.\u201d<\/p>\n

A revamp of the road, which sees nearly 50,000 vehicle trips per day in Glendale, could also eliminate several left turns that provide critical access to the city for southbound traffic, said Glendale City Manager Chuck Line, including to businesses that rely on the arterial to bring them a steady flow of customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of money for very little benefit,\u201d Line said of the project. \u201cYou\u2019re taking away road capacity and you\u2019re taking away left turns. This would have a massive impact on Glendale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glendale\u2019s strong opposition joined other input voiced on the potential project this month. The Colorado Department of Transportation hosted an open house in mid-May that drew about 300 people, according to Westword. The small city\u2019s leaders are voicing the shared frustration of drivers who already deal with a clogged Colorado Boulevard \u2014 while transit advocates hope for a project that will reorient the thoroughfare to serve more people using public transportation.<\/p>\n

The proposed Colorado Boulevard rapid bus line is one in an expanding number of projects of its kind in metro Denver, either in the planning stages or under construction. A stretch of Federal Boulevard is due for similar treatment to Colorado Boulevard, while bus rapid transit on the Diagonal Highway between Boulder and Longmont is partially complete.<\/p>\n

Construction on the $280 million East Colfax BRT project crossed from Denver into Aurora this month for the first time.<\/p>\n

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Bus rapid transit comes in different flavors, but at its core it\u2019s designed to make buses run like trains. That could mean higher frequencies, dedicated lanes or preferential signalization for buses, more comfortable and technologically advanced stations, and level boarding for quicker step-ons and -offs.<\/p>\n

CDOT, which is in charge of the Colorado Boulevard project since the arterial is a state highway, is in the early stages of evaluating options for the corridor, which will stretch from East 40th Avenue to East Yale Avenue. The bulk of the project would run through east Denver, with about 1 mile of the corridor located in Glendale.<\/p>\n

CDOT\u2019s\u00a0projections say that building the most robust form of BRT on Colorado Boulevard \u2014 either by dedicating a center lane or a side lane for exclusive bus use \u2014 would shorten the projected 45-minute bus ride in 2045 by 30% to 35%. Daily bus ridership, CDOT estimates, would leap from around 2,800 today to 6,000 a day in that time. <\/p>\n

But to achieve those improvements in transit travel times would require turning a car lane into a bus lane in each direction. And that\u2019s where the trade-off comes in.<\/p>\n

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CDOT projects that a center-running bus lane design would come with double the vehicle travel times on Colorado Boulevard by 2045, while a side-running design would boost vehicle travel times by nearly 50%. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re taking it from a three-lane road to a two-lane road (in each direction),\u201d Line said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to double travel time for 30,000 people on southbound Colorado Boulevard for 3,000 additional bus riders?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jill Locantore, executive director of the transit-friendly organization Denver Streets Partnership, said it\u2019s time to have more than just a conversation about a famously crowded corridor on Denver\u2019s east side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve spent decades widening Colorado Boulevard, and that has proven to be a failed strategy,\u201d she said. \u201cWe can\u2019t build our way out of congestion.\u201d<\/p>\n

She urges CDOT to embrace an alternative that includes a dedicated bus lane \u2014 an \u201cessential ingredient\u201d in getting people on the bus.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking the bus fast, frequent and reliable \u2014 that\u2019s how people really start using transit,\u201d Locantore said.<\/p>\n

CDOT appeared to be backing away from the center-running alternative already, with spokeswoman Tamara Rollison telling The Denver Post last week that the agency had concerns about \u201cunacceptable traffic impacts, higher construction impacts and costs\u201d from that design.<\/p>\n

There is a third alternative, called mixed-flow traffic,\u00a0which would keep intact the six throughlanes on Colorado Boulevard while giving buses signal prioritization for faster progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut no decisions have been made,\u201d Rollison said.<\/p>\n

Line, Glendale\u2019s city manager, is also worried about what a more congested Colorado Boulevard could do to the performance of intersecting streets, like East Alameda and East Mississippi avenues. And if things get too crunched on Colorado, he asked, would drivers choose neighborhood streets in both Denver and Glendale as alternate routes?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going to be driving through Virginia Village, they\u2019re going to be driving through Hilltop,\u201d he said of two adjacent Denver neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

That worries Courtney Mamuscia, the president of the Hilltop Neighborhood Association, which lies just north of Glendale. She could see Holly, Dahlia and Clermont streets becoming pass-through routes for impatient motorists tired of staring at brake lights on Colorado Boulevard.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe neighborhood is deeply skeptical (of CDOT\u2019s plans),\u201d she said. \u201cLane reductions that will divert thousands of vehicles into our neighborhood is a big concern.\u201d<\/p>\n

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