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https://www.mothersoutfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Electric-bus.jpg800600I know what it means to be public transit dependent — and to have those systems fail me. Growing up in Metro Denver, I rode the public bus from my home, which was then in Aurora, to Denver East at the City Park Esplanade where I attended high school, for all four years. Denver East was, and still is, a diverse high school which emphasizes academics and athletics, and also art and culture. But there was one thing about my public transit journey, on the public buses of Denver’s Regional Transportation District, five days a week, for four years, to Denver East that still causes me to shudder. Route 15 — and Denver East was at the very end of ...