Ball Arena / Elitch Gardens — Local services in Denver

The stop is really confusing and lacks even basic signage. When approaching the stop from the Ball Arena side, it appears you have to climb the concrete stairs to access the station, but access is actually hiding behind that staircase. Additionally, the platform has a center section and two side sections, but there's no signage indicating which side is for loading and which is for unloading. Turns out you load and unload from the center, regardless of which direction you're going. If you're on the wrong side, the doors won't open, and you'll miss your train. Finally, there's not a place to validate your pass at this stop, unlike other RTD train stations. Where do we validate?

RTD, a little signage goes a long way, and you can't blame operator shortages in these instances. This is one of many simple steps the agency could take to make public transit more intuitive...

RTD service has gone way, way, way down. We tried using the light rail for the Nuggets game last night. And it was a horrible experience. On the way to the game, the train was 12 minutes late. The light rail used to be reliable.

But the real horror was the trip home. The train after the game was 25 min late, so we were standing at the station for 40 minutes waiting.

Then we both had to change trains, so we get off at Osage to wait for 2 different trains. One was 25 min late and the other was 30 min late.

It took me 2 hours to get home 5 miles away on what should have been a 15-20 min trip if the schedules were accurate.

I will never...

Good for what it does, although the shelters are very limited as they could be extended in order to connect with one another from one side to the other. Sidewalk is also really small compared to the ones at...