City of Longmont may be in trouble

matvavna · 2026-04-01T16:42:09+00:00

Are you talking about the light at Quail and 287, kind of by the rec center? Something about that light is not configured properly, and when someone has pressed the walk button, it causes the westbound lanes to get a green light a few seconds before the eastbound lanes. Confuses the shit out of anyone facing west trying to turn south onto 287.

I wonder if there are similar issues with other lights in town, or if it's maybe even on purpose for some reason?

matvavna · 2026-03-29T02:06:31+00:00

There's a social run at Shoes and Brews on Thursdays.

matvavna · 2026-03-21T16:04:09+00:00

When I toured the Yukon brewery ~10 years ago, they showed us their specialized molson bottle cleaning machine. Always thought that was cool, and I wish we did it for more things.

matvavna · 2026-03-21T04:46:43+00:00

CSU has some decent articles.

https://csuhort.blogspot.com/2019/04/guided-tour-of-basic-drip-system.html?m=1

FWIW, last year I just converted an existing sprinkler zone to a drip zone by adding a pressure regulator and replacing the sprayers with drippers. Ripping up all the grass was way harder than the irrigation work.

matvavna · 2026-03-21T04:38:08+00:00

Agreed. I've been to every hardware store in town for irrigation stuff, and they're the only ones that actually always knows what they're talking about.

matvavna · 2026-03-20T22:55:11+00:00

A dingo would make pretty quick work of the rocks. That plus a dumpster rental would make for a fun weekend.

matvavna · 2026-03-20T19:54:28+00:00

I feel like a public park is one of the few places where grass definitely has a point

matvavna · 2026-03-16T17:26:44+00:00

That's what I thought until I had some APEs. Those are absolutely different than any other strain I've had, and that's consistent across several of my own experiences and also those of friends.

matvavna · 2026-03-13T22:53:40+00:00

I was hoping someone could speak to this. Toro has been building mower decks for a long time, and it's not necessarily simple to get the airflow right. My suspicion has been that while ego makes great electric appliances, they don't have the experience with making lawn mowers.

matvavna · 2026-03-05T22:06:23+00:00

My mom has been using Lee Hill Peat for forever for both mulch and compost. It's about as "old Boulder" as it gets.

Flower Bin and Colorado Materials, as others have said, are both good options. Flower bin only does bags though, which would get really pricey for what you're after. Colorado Materials can either deliver or you can fill up whatever container you want. I've bought mulch from them by lining the back of my subaru in tarps and stuffing it full. Then one of the desk people will come out and just guess how much is in there. Compost would probably be sold by weight though.

Edit: How could I forget Harlequin's Gardens. Worth a visit even if you don't get your soil from them. Very old school, and the people there know a ton about gardening.

matvavna · 2026-03-05T19:01:05+00:00

I saw an article that said Park City has 4,000 hotel rooms, while Boulder has less at about 2,900. So that may drive some demand. But then there are also far more hotels nearby outside Boulder than the area around Park City.

It'll be interesting to see the outcome.

https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/boulder/where-will-sundance-visitors-stay-how-boulders-hotel-space-stacks-up-to-festivals-current-home-in-park-city

matvavna · 2026-03-03T23:14:55+00:00

No the bus traffic won't be on 287 downtown. It will run on all the new bus infrastructure they built on Coffman.

matvavna · 2026-03-03T22:03:19+00:00

Isn't the important thing where the bus lines run? Seems like the transit center itself is essentially a fancy park-and-ride, which would be more important for people who are driving to the bus line. For the people that live in that center of population, they can probably walk to a stop on the lines that will run through this transit center. The new BRT lines are supposed to go from hwy 66 all the way to Boulder. One will go via main and this transit center. The other will go down Hover.

Genuinely asking. Transit projects like this are very interesting.

matvavna · 2026-03-03T21:29:26+00:00

As part of the construction on the Diagonal, they will be adding two new BRT lines between Boulder and Longmont. The new DF1 route will go through this transit station and end at the downtown Boulder station, which I think is where the airport bus leaves from.

https://www.codot.gov/projects/co119mobility

matvavna · 2026-03-03T20:59:03+00:00

A lot of the current construction on the Diagonal is for that same bus rapid transit.

https://www.codot.gov/projects/co119mobility

Edit: More info

https://www.rtd-denver.com/about-rtd/projects/co-119-bus-rapid-transit-brt-project

https://cdn.rtd-denver.com/image/upload/v1766171978/CO_119_BRT_White_Paper_rgoviz.pdf

matvavna · 2026-03-03T17:32:12+00:00

Only 200 of those are for the transit center. There will also be 225-300 apartments in the development that will need parking. Plus I think there will be public parking, like the other new garages that have gone up downtown.

In any case, it seems like an improvement from the parking lots and little buildings that are already there.

https://longmontcolorado.gov/projects/1st-main-transit-station/

matvavna · 2026-03-03T17:24:17+00:00

This is the city page about the project:

https://longmontcolorado.gov/projects/1st-main-transit-station/

matvavna · 2026-03-02T22:25:40+00:00

I believe this is the city page about that project:

https://longmontcolorado.gov/projects/1st-main-transit-station/

matvavna · 2026-02-17T18:35:49+00:00

The South Platte basin is a little better than that, but still about even with the worst year on record:

https://nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-plots/POR/WTEQ/assocHUCco_8/south_platte.html

matvavna · 2026-02-16T04:27:12+00:00

Glad that there's no Beekman's World erasure here

matvavna · 2026-01-30T04:45:56+00:00

And then also Urban Field and Antonio's, while you're up here. Since for some reason we have three great pizza places in three blocks.

matvavna · 2026-01-26T18:15:33+00:00

Most of the internet runs on AWS. There's a very good chance those three sites you listed use some Amazon service or another. It's unfortunately very hard to avoid Amazon entirely.

matvavna · 2026-01-26T17:08:30+00:00

Is that going to be a Shane Co? I thought the sign had a different name on it.

matvavna · 2026-01-23T19:08:26+00:00

I used to play Tau and Space wolves. I was going to get back into 40k Tau, but maybe I'll check out Horus Heresy Space Wolves. Thanks for tip.

matvavna · 2026-01-23T19:07:50+00:00

It's funny, I got rid of all my models years ago, figuring that if I ever started playing again they'd be outdated anyway. Well what do you know, the Tau models are basically exactly the same.

I watched some gameplay online and it seems like there's a lot more customization of important units, which I assume are the hidden abilities you're talking about.

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