IB-2004-H (June 2004)
Author:   The Center for the American Dream

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Denver’s Southwest Corridor light-rail line cost far more to build than the cost of adding two new lanes onto Santa Fe Drive, which parallels the rail line. Yet it took, at most, one-third of a lane’s worth of rush-hour traffic off of Santa Fe.