[Colorado-talk] Good-Bye Market Street Station and Hello Denver Union Station (DUS)

[d m gina]

Wasn't that where the train station used to be?
Why is the other station closing? Market Street Station?
I'm Dar from Montana, who lived in Denver for years.

Original message:
> We will say good-bye to Market Street Station on 11 May 2014.  All RTD 
> routes currently using Market Street Station are moving to Denver Union 
> Station (DUS) on 11 May 2014.  (I will send preliminary gate 
> assignments in another E-mail this evening when I arrive in Wyoming.)  
> RTD is planning some interesting events to open DUS, which I believe we 
> blind would enjoy attending.  I would like to see as many blind people 
> as possible coming downtown to our Union Station to celebrate its 
> opening.  Hearing the sounds of cane tips on the terracotta floor of 
> DUS would be absolutely fantastic!!!

> DUS is not for Denver alone; DUS belongs to Colorado.  It would be 
> fantastic to see as many Federationists as possible downtown on 9 May 
> 2014 during the celebrations.  I will join the celebrations myself 
> after I get off work at 3:30 p.m.

> Please call or text me at 303-863-1150 if you are there!!!  You may 
> also contact Monique Melton at CCB.  I suggest taking the C Line or W 
> Line to Denver Union Station.  I would like to take photos of blind 
> people enjoying Union Station.  I want to publish photos of blind 
> people enjoying the new facilities for The Blind Colordian.  The 
> opening day events are as follows:

> Friday, May 9 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. will be the Grand Opening Ceremony 
> and Celebration of the Union Station Underground Bus Concourse
> The speeches will be from noon to 1 p.m. at Wewatta Pavilion at 17th 
> and Wewatta Streets

>> From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. there will be food trucks, vendors and a beer 
>> garden on Wewatta Street between 17th and 18th and on the 17th Street Promenade

> All attendees can come free and will be able to go see the bus concourse

> There will be RTD ambassadors at Market Street Station the week prior 
> to the closing on May 11

> On Friday, May 9 during the celebration and starting on Sunday, May 11 
> there will be customer care representatives and ambassdors at Market 
> Street Station, in the Union Station Bus Concourse and on the commuter 
> rail and light rail platforms so please ask for an “ambassador” for assistance

> Gary Van Dorn
> President, Mile High NFBCO
> Board Member, NFBCO


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