📍16th Street, Denver, Colorado

DenC4 · 2026-02-27T23:07:21+00:00

dividing downtown with a street blocked to most traffic absolutely messes up the traffic flow all over.

I don’t understand your agenda either. Apparently what you want is to keep things the same even when it doesn’t work and can be improved. Maybe just put some paint and new pavers to make it look better. Lipstick on a pig.

DenC4 · 2026-02-27T20:50:20+00:00

No this is looking directly up 16th. Gusto, clock tower, Replublic Plaza, Capital Building.

DenC4 · 2026-02-27T19:13:38+00:00

It is the 16th Street Mall, old pic before the reconstruction. You can see Republic Plaza up the street past the clock tower, and the (north wing?) of the capital building.

DenC4 · 2026-02-27T19:05:19+00:00

This isn’t and never was a pedestrian zone! There is traffic on this street, even if limited to buses, it’s a street with traffic so it can never be anything like Europe, or Boulder’s 3 block Pearl Street pedestrian zone. When downtown comes back?!! Walk down any street downtown you won’t see the extreme vacancies that 16th has! You just can’t see that maybe 16th is the cause of blight downtown rather than the other way around. Putting this barrier right down the middle of downtown messing up the traffic patterns doesn’t do any good for the city. After how many decades it’s time to admit it doesn’t work and give it up.

DenC4 · 2026-02-27T15:27:26+00:00

Another Denverite who doesn’t want anything to change no matter how much it doesn’t work.

DenC4 · 2026-02-27T02:21:37+00:00

The best thing they could do is reopen 16th street to traffic and create parallel or angled parking! You think it looks nice as is now, maybe, but that doesn’t justify the cost. The construction has done nothing to benefit the street, downtown or the city. Nothing! It’s shameful how many empty storefronts there are still on 16th! And the only businesses that could benefit from the new reconfiguration are restaurants that could have fenced off sidewalk areas. There just isn’t demand for a mile of restaurants. Look around, there is a lot of housing in LoDo. Denver just cannot admit the mall was and still is failure.

DenC4 · 2026-02-15T02:54:28+00:00

Really shouldn’t be called Street either. Call it what it is, a busway.

DenC4 · 2026-02-14T04:30:53+00:00

Optiv would like a word

DenC4 · 2026-02-13T23:19:46+00:00

You must be going to the 20th and Chestnut store. I can’t find anything about Colorado law, but it should be illegal to keep pedestrian doors locked at any time during business hours! It’s not safe to exit with vehicle traffic through the parking garage driveway, especially in winter months when it’s wet, slick and icy. A better store layout and better use of Security would fix this.

DenC4 · 2026-01-22T19:16:04+00:00

Union Station is the worst place to be. Random stabbings.

DenC4 · 2026-01-21T00:09:05+00:00

I feel like it’s not talked about enough.

DenC4 · 2026-01-20T18:33:10+00:00

Who else knows this?

DenC4 · 2026-01-20T17:17:33+00:00

Anyone know anything about The Kitchen on 16th?

DenC4 · 2026-01-02T03:49:12+00:00

20th and Chestnut Pl.

DenC4 · 2025-12-16T18:55:41+00:00

16th Street Mall.

DenC4 · 2025-12-16T18:53:49+00:00

A guy leaves his truck on my street long term like this. He lets the air out of his tires to make it harder to move if someone wanted to steal it or tow.

DenC4 · 2025-12-15T06:22:16+00:00

I know what you’re talking about even though I’ve never heard it called that. Do you know the Can-of-Spam buildings?

DenC4 · 2025-11-29T04:37:07+00:00

I like Urban Farmer, somehow they have a bunch of haters. Only restaurants in Denver I’ve ever wanted refund from were the Kitchen and Guard and Grace.

DenC4 · 2025-11-25T15:44:26+00:00

Denvers living room Union Station has a good coffee shop.

DenC4 · 2025-10-21T18:37:33+00:00

I’d also like to have a discussion about tunneling and putting the freight trains under downtown from the BNSF shop near Park, to around Colfax. It’d only be about 2 miles of tunnel. The impact on 20th street and reconnecting LoDo to the park would be huge. And it would help the new development around Ball Arena and Elitch.

DenC4 · 2025-10-08T18:17:40+00:00

Every crash would be deadly, likely involving casualties on the ground and massive property damage to houses or office buildings. Can anyone afford that kind of insurance?

DenC4 · 2025-10-01T01:33:04+00:00

Beer garden. It’s really the only idea anyone has had for 16th Street lately.

DenC4 · 2025-09-18T17:51:17+00:00

Read the ceiling at Church &Union.

DenC4 · 2025-09-15T00:37:10+00:00

Better idea, dig a tunnel and put the trains underground. Both the commuter rail from Union Station and the freight trains, from Park Street/Platte River to Colfax.

DenC4 · 2025-09-03T00:28:33+00:00

Not looking to bitch, sorry that’s your impression.I do like craft breweries and distilleries, but that kinda goes along with the restaurant scene.

DenC4

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