A Fox Butterfield Moment

Right here in Denver. For those of you from out of town, Colfax Ave is the main E-W non-freeway artery through Denver. It's 4 lanes wide and East of Broadway it allows parking on both sides. It's heavily used and features a very popular bus line which whenever I've tried to drive down Colfax, seems to feature a bus about every 4 blocks. Did I mention that these buses seem to stop about once every block.

The buses are known as "rolling roadblocks" by the car drivers and render the outside lanes pretty much unusable. The solution is:

A 10-mile corridor that already is tops in bus ridership but suffers from congestion problems needs another fleet of buses to cure its transit woes. At least that was the plan presented Friday by transportation officials with the city and county of Denver to fix the Colfax Avenue issues.

More buses of course. And to improve the efficiency, the buses would get one lane dedicated to them, cramming all the cars into one lane. Sure, that'll work.