QUID HAS HEARD that every car salesmen who’s sold more than one car can tell you that despite all the ruckus about gas mileage, crash tests and performance for all that cash, what people actually care about is the color, the cup holders and the chrome model badge on the car butt. Buying a light-rail system turns out to be very similar, and Aurora buyers aren’t happy. After a lifetime of waiting for our very own, brand-new light rail system, Aurora got stuck with a lime-green Model R. The train is nice, but when RTD handed out line names earlier this year, the system that connects the line to DIA all the way south to Nine Mile station and even then onto Park Meadows, was christened the “R” Line. R is for “Really?” Quid doesn’t want to be the metro area’s token thimble or shoe in RTD’s monopoly game of monotony. Quid wants to be the race car. Arvada got their line dubbed the “Gold Line.” And that dumb bus from Boulder is the Flatiron Flyer. Denver stole the A Line moniker for their DIA commuter service to Union Station, which, Quid assumes, makes that part of the line the A-Hole. FasTracks folks totally missed the opportunity to re-call that the Metro Air Train. If Aurora can’t be the A-Line, and it totally should be, than Quid suggests we recall all RTD board members not falling in line — Colorado Springs Republican gun-control snit style. Dump the boring alphabet soup and call these babies something worthy of the billions of dollars we’re sinking into the system. Name them after Colorado peaks. Aurora gets to be “Torreys” because we’re that cool. Littleton can have “Mt. Democrat.” Better yet, call these lines names that mean something. Aurora wants to be the “Hot Line.” After that, everyone else can sort it out among themselves. And we want our cup holders away from the stereo knobs.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that wild card Democratic 6th Congressional District candidate Perry Haney needs to answer serious questions since disrupting the party coronation of one of the state’s most-admired Dem darlings. In the big political picture of things out here in Aurora, Haney photo-bombed state Sen. Morgan Carroll’s recent photo opulencement, making official that she wanted to get the ever-softening incumbent GOP Congressman Mike Coffman’s congressional paycheck in 2016. Raising speculation that Haney is actually a dirty tricks Republican plant who loaned his own campaign a cool million bucks to take on Coffman himself, Quid thinks not. Haney, an Arkansas Valley-turned-Aurora-turned-Greenwood Village resident and chiropractor-turned-physician-turned-chiropractor has been a Republican-turned-Democrat-turned-candidate for years now. The question Quid hears daily is: What’s the best adjustment for a persistent pain the butt?
AND THATS ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS.
WHAT??? We blind and disabled folks have seen as many cuts to our bus routes since 2010 and ridiculous fares (DOUBLE the regular fare) for Access-a-Ride, making ANY kind of transportation inconvenient and unaffordable for us.
And you use this column to gripe about the NAMES of the lines? What a distraction and disservice to the disabled and low income communities!
I agree that Aurora should be better respected as many lower income people live there (Corporate America loves to mock the poor by getting the government to do these sorts of things). But you just saw the biggest rent hike in the Denver area (Aurora landlords to the poor: “Drop dead.”) So you’ve got plenty to write about besides the names of the lines. You can do better.
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