New Statehouse Bill: 7AM Closing Time

Would you support allowing Colorado bars to have later closing times?
It appears that forcing everyone out at 2AM has lead to some issues in downtown Denver, mainly increased violence and crime.
Personally I don't care, I have seen a last call for years. And I think it might help with tourism if we have longer hours.

FredHayek wrote: Would you support allowing Colorado bars to have later closing times?
It appears that forcing everyone out at 2AM has lead to some issues in downtown Denver, mainly increased violence and crime.
Personally I don't care, I have seen a last call for years. And I think it might help with tourism if we have longer hours.

If they want to close the bars later...not in Denver...Make those drinkers go to BlackHawk and Central City since they are open 24/7 and let the beer flow there.
That way all the drunks and cops are in one central location away from the city

Who would want to drive home from a bar at 7 am in middle of rush hour traffic? I'm sure alcoholics would love the law though.

FredHayek wrote: Would you support allowing Colorado bars to have later closing times?
It appears that forcing everyone out at 2AM has lead to some issues in downtown Denver, mainly increased violence and crime.
Personally I don't care, I have seen a last call for years. And I think it might help with tourism if we have longer hours.

That logic is down the rabbit hole. Drunks who leave bars at 2 am last call get mugged or knocked out so let the bars stay open to 7? We pay people to come up with this stuff?

Morons. On a practical note, would bar owners want the additional overhead and liability to stay open to 7? I got it. Let's make it a condition of having a liquor license.

Brilliant! Not enough people die from drunks driving, so put them out during rush hour. I'll bet a Demoncrap is behind this bill.

It was very wierd spending time in NYC where the bars didn't have last calls.

Actually I don't think many places would stay open until 7AM. Wouldn't make sense financially.

If it's moving to 7AM, you might just as well eliminate closing time completely.

And yes, I'm in favor of it. You can't legislate clean living, and closing time just creates a time for all the drunks to be out at once.

Having lived in in Alaska....I have seen this scenario.....as I remember, bars closed at 5A and
reopened at 7 or 8AM....but that was back in the 50's and 60's, the drunks (sloppy or belligerent,
or dopey) were wandering the streets trying to get back home or back to their car or just back
to an alley....alcoholism was alive and well in Anchorage/Fairbanks. I would tend to think this
idea is asinine at best, and probably more like insane.

Closing at 0700 might work in larger urban centers where people walk and travel on mass transit. I'll admit to having been "locked in" at a couple of bars in big cities (not Denver) because I was with a large group of people who persuaded the owner/manager to let us stay later; we had money to spend and they wanted the cash badly enough to accept the risk.

Keeping bars open until 0700 in today's downtown Denver? I'm not sure the demand is there, I have to believe that business would tapper off sometime around 0330 or 0400 strictly due to the volume of booze people would have consumed and the Circadian rhythms of day shift workers. Maybe College students and night shift workers would account for some of the late night/early morning business but I don't see that as a huge untapped market of potential customers who have been overlooked.

As for the more rural settings in Colorado, I don't know that it would make sense for owners to offer extended hours in to the dawn of the next day. From a business perspective, the owners would have to either pay overtime and double shift their existing workforce or hire an extra shift of workers. While there might be some demand in downtown Denver, Colorado Springs, and resort cities, I'm having a hard time believing that a bar in places like Keenesburg or Meeker would see any additional revenue from increased business.

On the other hand, when I was stationed in Edzell Scotland (which is geographically close to NOTHING) one of my favorite pubs (of the three that were anywhere close to RAF Edzell at the time - 1984-5) was in an inn/bed and breakfast. I'd go out with my shipmates when we had a couple of days leave and we'd get a couple of rooms, enjoy the food and drink, then crash in the rooms and head back to base in the morning.

Sounds like Mayor Hancock is pushing this bill. Might work good downtown and ski resorts.