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* lowers property values close by in some areas. Here in Denver, property (and rents) near the light rail are very high value and expensive. I live in an apart

• throwanem 10y ago
  Same in Baltimore, and our carsets are going on thirty years old. I live alongside both the light rail track and the interstate, which run mostly parallel here, and the latter is much noisier, especially when the crazy people on motorcycles use it for a racetrack. There are relatively few residential areas very near our light rail, and those that are tend on the pricey side, although that may be more for other reasons than transit access. Where I live now is one of the few places you can live in easy walking distance of a station and pay less than $1k/mo in rent; on the other hand, my community has a poor reputation, mostly undeserved, for being a hive of drug dealers and "not our kind of people", by which is meant working-class black and white folks. A mile or so down in Clipper Mill, which is very much "our kind of people", one may confidently expect to pay $1600 or more a month to rent a tiny rowhouse, even if it's no closer to the Woodberry station than my current abode is to Cold Spring Lane.