it is outrageous that this travesty has gotten this far along in the approval process. City officials should have laughed in festival organizers faces when they showed up proposing to hold a event projected to eventually draw 80,000 people per day on a municipal golf course with ZERO parking. But all the Mayor and City Council could see were dollar signs (and a free trip to San Francisco for some of them). The Evans light rail station is a half mile hike from the proposed entrance. A hike that will either route concert goers along Santa Fe or through neighborhoods. Nothing like 20-40,000 drunk partiers stumbling home through your neighborhood at 11 pm!

I wonder how many tens of millions the proposed pedestrian bridge will cost? Not mentioned here is that Denver has agreed to absorb the costs of police, fire and ambulance services - millions more. There needs to be an investigation into just why local politicians are backing this potential catastrophe.

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