Going Underground
Peter Provost, a fellow Denver resident, posted a link on his weblog to this site, which imagines what a subway in our fair city might look like.
I’m not sure who the enterprising soul that came up with this map was, but I applaud his work. If there’s one thing that my travels in the capitals of Europe have taught me, it’s that subways can provide a wonderfully easy and effective mode of mass transit. What’s more, my personal feeling is that they can often help to give cities more character and make them less “suburban” by collapsing the distances between different areas. And Lord knows Denver could use the traffic relief!
My only quibble with the proposed map? It needs a loop (similar to the London Underground’s Circle Line) around the city center.
On a separate but related note, it would appear that London’s Central Line outage (which dogged nearly every underground journey we took on my last trip) is finally at an end.