Fitzsimons Light Rail Station Fiasco

The new RTD R light-rail line has a station called the Fitzsimons Station, but it is in a horrible location on the far north side of the Anschutz/Fitzsimons campus. To go from there to the hospitals requires crossing a major 4-lane parkway and then walking on a dirt path for a few blocks along the edge of a golf course, then about 4 more blocks to the medical school, then even further to the hospitals.  Since this is way too far for anyone who is visiting a hospital to walk, there is a shuttle bus that runs about every 8 minutes, but that is still pretty crazy and expensive.  The north side of the station is all open space, with a trail to a residential development about 4 blocks north.

One of the plans was for the light-rail to go through the middle of the campus on Montview Blvd, but that was vetoed on concerns that it would split the campus in two.

So now it is in the middle of nowhere and hardly anyone uses it.  But every train that comes by has to stop.  It isn't that far from the golf course, but I doubt any golfers would bring their clubs on the train.

Ok I get it, that the urban planners like open space, and they like right rail, but why do you put the light rail in the middle of the open space?  You need to have density to justify the use of light rail, but open space is the exact opposite.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.  But why do they care?  The whole thing is paid for with sales tax, of which RTD has nearly an endless supply (about $600 million per year).