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What?  No free shuttle?  No way to get two miles distant without having to pay or use our feet?  This is an outrage.  An outrage.  Do you hear me?  Build me a subway, cretins!  Now!
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Our family was shocked to find out that the city would not have a trolley shuttle into town until June 23.  We shuttled up here from Denver for a family reunion believing there would be trolley service.  Plenty of people here that would like to have access to this.  Even those with cars here would probably prefer it to hunting for spaces to park.  The city should consider not waiting so long to start some form of trolley service.

Do readers understand how shockedSHOCKED!the Davis family was to find our "city" of Estes Park did not provide year-round free transportation to and from the YMCA to downtown, through the national park, to their favorite restaurants, including Marys Lake Lodge and Twin Owls, and on a tour of the newly-opened Big Thompson Canyon road?  How SHOCKING.  Does the Davis family understand how the internet works, or the telephone, where you pose a question and receive an answer, often near instantaneously, so you don't get surprised when something doesn't turn out as you hoped or mistakenly assumed, because we aren't New York, and we don't work 70 hours a week to keep our guests scurrying around on free transportation?
How did the Davis family somehow get confused into thinking Estes Park taxpayers, unlike regular taxpayers, are made of money, just have hundos dripping off their bodies and peeling into the wind, to provide guests like the Davises free transportation anywhere they wish to go?
Do we have taxis?  Do we have Lyft?  Do we have Uber?  Are there things like rental cars?  Could they have bummed a ride into town from any of thousands of cars going back and forth in the early summer between the Y and downtown?  Sure, we have, and they could have availed themselves of, all of these options and likely more, but the Davis family, when they attend family reunions, like things to go exactly as they envision they should go in the magic places they chose to gather, and if that means Estes Park taxpayers shell out for an ambulance or a limousine so the Davis family can get downtown or down to Lost Lake trailhead without having to worry about parking, who are we as taxpayers to complain, or deny them this fantasy?
Exactly why don't Estes Park taxpayers pay for 15 minute shuttles from everywhere guests stay to everywhere they want to go, 365 days a year?  Umm, let's see, because we aren't Denver International Airport, and because this is not Indulgent Parent Land, where all your admission fees are comped.  Rent horses next time, Davis family.  That's a fun bonding activity that the Estes Park taxypayers aren't on the hook for to make sure your family reunion goes off without a hitch (get it, without a hitch?) and without footing the bill for expenditures normal families pay and expect to pay when they go anywhere besides a drug lord's house to hold their reunion, and we all know how those reunions ultimately turn out with drug lords who promise all-inclusive.

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  1. If the YMCA paid taxes, maybe we COULD afford more shuttles.

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