The Millennium Bridge, seen in the photograph above, is a pedestrian bridge built over the remaining railroad tracks dividing downtown Denver from the Highlands neighborhood. Back when I first moved to Denver, this entire area was all railroad tracks and freight yards. Now, it contains expensive condos and apartments, as well as Commons Park, which borders the Platte River (and for God's sake, don't EVER touch that water). In any case, in addition to the Regional Transportation District's light rail trains, BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) trains pass under that bridge, bringing wind turbine parts up to Wyoming and tons of coal back. BNSF is most famous for advertising on the PBS News Hour with Judy Woodruff, and most infamous here in Denver for demanding $535 million - compared with a projected $66 million cost - to give the right of way for RTD to expand it's "B" line from the Denver suburb of Westminster to Boulder and Longmont, effectively making the project financially unfeasible. And yet BNSF is owned by Omaha good guy billionaire Warren Buffett. What's the deal with that?
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