{"id":3344,"date":"2013-03-19T22:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T05:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2013-03-19T22:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T05:33:54","slug":"bus-route-to-provide-opportunity-for-outsiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"Bus Route to Provide Opportunity for Outsiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bus-route.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bus-route-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"bus route\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3345\" \/><\/a>Stapletonians, well-known for housing some of the largest big screen TVs in Denver, have long frustrated enterprising Auroriaites who lack transportation to reach the prime Stapleton real estate.\u00a0 Fortunately for the enterprising but vehicleless, RTD has come to the rescue.\u00a0 Buses now travel down one of Stapleton\u2019s quietest lesser-known streets \u2013 29th Avenue \u2013 providing riders with access to hundreds of homes with plasma TVs.\u00a0 \u00a0\n<!--more-->\n\u201cHoly moly\u201d exclaimed Jeff Jones, a long time RTD rider who has been frustrated that bus routes never go the places with the truly big TVs, is thrilled with this new access.\u00a0 \u201cIn my line of work, it\u2019s really limiting to be stuck on Colfax and Colorado Blvd.\u00a0 This 29th Avenue route opens up new opportunities.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited that the bus comes every 30 minutes, is easy to board, and has plenty of open space to transport large electronics.\u201d\nNot everyone is as excited as Jones.\u00a0 Some living on 29th Avenue were shocked to learn that the city bus route outlined in the Stapleton Master Plan and widely discussed for years is real and buses would actually travel down one of the longest neighborhood main corridors in Stapleton.\u00a0 \u201cI thought those multi-person benches on the tree lawn were for wildlife viewing,\u201d said longtime resident Josh Clark.  \u201cI had no idea that RTD would actually stoop to implementing their plan. Now I\u2019ll have people who don\u2019t look like me waiting in front of my house for their getaway bus.\u201d\nOther Stapletonians, however, are more circumspect. \u201cIt\u2019s not all bad having your old 42\u201d flat screen lifted,\u201d says Blake Williams. \u201cWith the two year old dinosaur gone and insurance payment in-hand, I can justify that 65\u201d Plasma I\u2019ve had my eye on.\u201d  Still others are quick to point out lessor known consequences including:\n\n\n<ul>\n\t\n\n<li>The noise of the buses will disturb the beauty sleep of the neighborhood Labradoodles.<\/li>\n\n\n\t\n\n<li>\nThe addition of four new vehicle trips per hour will utterly destroy the rural quality of life on 29th Avenue. <\/li>\n\n\n\t\n\n<li>The dangerous intermingling of bicycles with large, gasoline-powered vehicles is simply unthinkable.<\/li>\n\n\n\t\n\n<li>Small, innocent children will be clutching their au pairs at the sight of city buses in their idyllic neighborhood.<\/li>\n\n\n\u00a0<\/ul>\n\n\nThe arrival of this new intrusion is forcing Stapletonians to confront the cold hard fact that they actually live in a city, not a suburb, an island, or <a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/forrest-city-plans-purchase-of-another-former-%E2%80%9Clanding-strip%E2%80%9D\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the moon<\/a>.  A petition is underway to eradicate any mode of transportation that threatens the sanctity of the nuclear family vehicle.\u00a0 To sign on to this noble effort, please contact Neighbors Opposing Busing Radicals and Immigrants Near Stapleton (NOBRAINS).\u00a0]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-51","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}