The W Line (RTD) Denver

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Line_(RTD) Since 2013. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Transportation_District#Light_rail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Center_station_(RTD) The last multitrack station heading towards the mountains. It has 3 tracks.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Federal+Center/@39.720046,-105.1291426,180m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x876b80aa231f17cf:0x118ef4f8278a36d6!2sDenver,+CO,+USA!3b1!8m2!3d39.7392358!4d-104.990251!16zL20vMDJjbDE!3m5!1s0x876b83ff74409651:0x976d688b69b1c97e!8m2!3d39.7196087!4d-105.1293034!16s%2Fm%2F0vpw1mv!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYwMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rocks_College_station While this station is doubletracked, this part of the W line is single tracked.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Red+Rocks+Community+College+Station/@39.7248817,-105.1522948,231m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x876b80aa231f17cf:0x118ef4f8278a36d6!2sDenver,+CO,+USA!3b1!8m2!3d39.7392358!4d-104.990251!16zL20vMDJjbDE!3m5!1s0x876b8472678820a9:0x3d0bcc31db3ad9ae!8m2!3d39.725078!4d-105.152812!16s%2Fg%2F12hywf30h!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYwMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_County_Government_Center-Golden_station The end of the line with 3 station tracks on a single track section.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jefferson+County+Government+Center+-+Golden+Station/@39.7263925,-105.2010834,113m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x876b80aa231f17cf:0x118ef4f8278a36d6!2sDenver,+CO,+USA!3b1!8m2!3d39.7392358!4d-104.990251!16zL20vMDJjbDE!3m5!1s0x876b84be8d56240d:0x9eb4d0b27be6cbb9!8m2!3d39.7264567!4d-105.2013467!16s%2Fm%2F0gjdf22!5m1!1e2?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYwMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Transportation_District#Primary_services 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Denver_RTD_rail_stations

Cities, the BIG and the small of it

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/CN_Tower_1976.jpg/330px-CN_Tower_1976.jpg , https://www.britannica.com/topic/CN-Tower Standing at a height of 1,815 feet (553 meters)  

1815' divided by 581' is almost 3.13 times the height of a stump in Vancouver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_Centre "Skyscraperpage lists the buildings height to the roof as being only 139.6 m (458 ft). This is stated to be the height from the Hastings Street entrance while the height from the back entrance on Cordova Street is 146 m (479 ft). It also lists the buildings pinnacle height to the tip of the antenna as being 177.1 m (581 ft)." STUMP!

This Vancouver stump is only 32% of the CN Towers height. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/A_look_downtown_%28759827996%29.jpg/960px-A_look_downtown_%28759827996%29.jpg The Harbour_Centre building should have been on the scale of something like the Hopewell_Centre_(Hong_Kong). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Canadian_Place The BMO. Unlike Chicago, Toronto has no 100 story office towers.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/First_Canadian_Place_August_2017_01.jpg/500px-First_Canadian_Place_August_2017_01.jpg Its a 72 story HQ tower in Toronto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentall_Centre_(Vancouver)#Three_Bentall_Centre A 32 story BC office stump.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Bentall_3.jpg/330px-Bentall_3.jpg

Being from small Vancouver, its amazing that Canada even has one megacity. Toronto is certainly a big city on a lakeshore like Chicago is. Montreal isn't allowed to have buildings as tall as Melbourne, let alone NYC. Montreal has allowed only one office tower to be over 50 floors and a few residential towers in the 60s. 

Calgary has more 50+ story office towers than Denver and Perth. No 40 story office tower exists in BC. The office section of the Harbour_Centre doesn't even have a 30th floor and the revolving restaurant is closer to being like 35 floors up. However, with the overall building being 481 feet, it would be equivalent to 40 floors, if the windows went right up to the top. The flagpole has no windows, but the flag would be like the equivalent of being 48 floors up.

Not just Toronto & Montreal, but Edmonton and Seattle have longer underground train stations than backwards, congested Vancouver. 

The Iron+Bridge, Oak+Street+Bridge, Knight+Street+Bridge & the Arthur+Laing+Bridge should all have a bus+and+bike bridge built next to them. The extremely inadequate Lion+Bridge should have already had a bus and train tunnel close to it. 

Calgary vs. Denver and Dallas

The scale Calgary is impressive, but Alberta just doesn't have the same imposed restrictions as backwater BC. 

Denver is a big city & metropolitan area in its own right, but somehow Calgary has more 50 story office towers than Denver. Dallas has more tall buildings than Calgary and Denver, combined.

Dallas is a landlocked_city like Calgary and Denver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas

Getting Around Colorado

 https://www.colorado.com/articles/getting-colorado-getting-around

3 Major Pieces of Infrastructure that will Transform Denver & Colorado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlyO-RdWChQ

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Denver

Denver RTD vs. the C-Train of Calgary

The $6 Billion Transit Project with No Ridership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkI6Fmet4FE

Of course there needs to be more things built close to the stations to increase ridership. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Denver_RTD_rail_stations

Silverliner V trains are used on the RTD's A, B, G and N lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverliner_V#RTD_Commuter_Rail 

Car length	85 ft 0 in (25.91 m)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Airport_station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTrain#Spur_line_to_Calgary_International_Airport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary#Public_transit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CTrain_stations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTrain#Future_plans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTrain#Further_underground_infrastructure Any underground stations or trench stations won't be an 80m or 50m joke like in backward Vancouver.

Calgary, Alberta

Just like Washington State, the Alberta part of Canada isn't stunted like BC is.

"The Calgary Metropolitan Region is home to Canada's second-largest number of corporate head offices among the country's 800 largest corporations.^[14] In 2015, Calgary had the largest number of millionaires per capita of any major Canadian city.^[15] In 2022, Calgary was ranked alongside Zürich as the third most livable city in the world, ranking first in Canada and in North America."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary#Transportation

Unlike Vancouver, Calgary & Seattle are able to improve transportation infrastructure without taking lanes away from the narrow bridges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Transportation

Calgary has more 50 story office towers than Denver or Minneapolis.

Calgary and Edmonton Compared https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h9HgvwQxJc

Denver, Colorado

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Expansion_Project#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTD_Bus_%26_Rail#Light_rail

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Denver

Denver

 https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/transit-briefs-denver-rtd-sound-transit-wmata/?RAchannel=rapid-transit

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Denver

tallest-buildings-in-denver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Denver#Tallest_buildings


https://blog.usajrealty.com/posts/tallest-buildings-in-denver-change-is-a-coming

Denver RTD

https://denverurbanism.com/2019/01/rtd-marketing-problem.html

https://denverurbanism.com/category/transit

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Denver

Denver A_Line_(RTD)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Line_(RTD)

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/lifestyle/discover-colorado/secrets-of-colorado/secrets-of-colorado-11-secrets-of-the-denver-international-airport-rtd-train-station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Transportation_District#Central_Corridor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littleton%E2%80%93Mineral_station

denver

http://www.aerialarchives.com/Aerial-Photographs-of-Denver.htm

https://www.google.ca/search?q=aerial+pictures+of+downtown+denver&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=NU6xU8zzKszZoATdo4F4&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1777&bih=887&dpr=0.9

denver-airports-devil-horse-sculpture

http://www.today.com/travel/despite-criticism-denver-airports-devil-horse-sculpture-likely-stay-1C8543778

Calgary, Denver and Dallas

Calgary can get as cold, or even colder than Denver at times. However, Calgary can get almost as hot as Dallas during the summer.

"...the Denver City Town Co. was organized on Nov. 22, 1858..." 
http://www.denverpost.com/denver150/ci_11027566

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver#History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Larimer,_Jr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auraria,_Denver

http://www.coloradodirectory.com/maps/denver.html

http://doubtfulnews.com/2011/12/conspiracies-abound-at-the-denver-airport-and-all-around

http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/02/remarkable-but-bizarre-icon-in-denver-at-risk/

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Denver