As construction on the East Colfax Bus Rapid Transit project moves closer to Aurora, business owners and neighbors along the corridor say they are bracing for short-term disruption while holding onto hope for long-term revival.
“We need to get back to our heyday here when there was a tram,” Dr. PJ Parmar, owner of Mango House on East Colfax, said. “Transit has always shaped this neighborhood.”
The East Colfax trolley system, essential to Aurora’s early 20th-century development, operated from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Today, buses brake over buried rails, but neighbors still depend on mass transit…