It isnt sprawl that destroyed it. It is the destruction of small businesses. Look at your pictures. All those small businesses that lined the street were pushed out by malls and box stores.
It was quite a sprawing web of locally controlled trolley networks. A person could get half-way across the country hopping from trolley to trolley until the automobile industry decided to lobby against them.
This exactly cities used to attract everyone to come downtown to shop, eat, see movies and work, it was safe. There were such unique things to see and do all of it, now it’s mainly gone, downtown Denver is a prime example.
Having been to Denver a couple times the thought each time was "this downtown would be so pleasant if one wasn't tripping over a homeless encampment every ten feet."
I worked in the cash register building, after the 2020 riots it was horrible downtown was disgusting and looked like a war zone plus the libtards left it like that for weeks... took the former republican governor to shame Polis to clean up the capital. Guy is a total disgrace.
It isnt sprawl that destroyed it. It is the destruction of small businesses. Look at your pictures. All those small businesses that lined the street were pushed out by malls and box stores.
That's not the only thing missing. They pulled up the trolly tracks at some point too and then replaced a whole block of buildings with a parking lot.
Yea talk about clean energy and less congestion. We had trolleys in so many cities eons ago. And they had to push urban sprawl and cars.
It was quite a sprawing web of locally controlled trolley networks. A person could get half-way across the country hopping from trolley to trolley until the automobile industry decided to lobby against them.
This exactly cities used to attract everyone to come downtown to shop, eat, see movies and work, it was safe. There were such unique things to see and do all of it, now it’s mainly gone, downtown Denver is a prime example.
Having been to Denver a couple times the thought each time was "this downtown would be so pleasant if one wasn't tripping over a homeless encampment every ten feet."
I grew up right outside Denver and left for a dirt road in Kansas in 2011
Best choice I ever made now that I see what my home state has become
I worked in the cash register building, after the 2020 riots it was horrible downtown was disgusting and looked like a war zone plus the libtards left it like that for weeks... took the former republican governor to shame Polis to clean up the capital. Guy is a total disgrace.