G Line! It's The G Line! We'll have a Yaba-Daba-Do Good Time! That is my personal ode to the opening of Denver's newest Light Rail, with all apologies due to the Flintstones Cartoon People. And this is all because yesterday, after a two year delay, the G Line to Old Town Arvada and Wheat Ridge (suburbs just to the northwest of Denver), finally opened. It was delayed because there was a software glitch that kept the crossing gates down longer than mandated, sparking fears from the Federal Department of Transportation that people would get impatient, go around the gates, and get splattered. Evidently they don't believe in letting Darwin's Theory of Evolution take its course.
In any case, I made it a point to take advantage of the hoopla and ride the train out to Old Town Arvada and take a few (by which I mean a lot) of photographs. Arvada is a lot like the town of Littleton, which I have also featured on this blog. Both were settled by farmers in the 1860s. The actual town of Arvada was started in 1870, pretty similar to Littleton, and it grew to be a fairly good sized suburb of Denver, with a very quaint, historic downtown, consisting of a lot of bars, restaurants, boutiques, and brew pubs. What's not to like, especially with trains taking you there every 15 minutes? Life here in paradise has gotten even better.
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