- They were a “historic coalition,” Gov. Jared Polis announced, the product of more than 100 meetings meant to build support for the day’s occasion: a long-awaited transportation funding bill.
- Part of an 83-year-old steel bridge could be yours, free, if you can show the Colorado Department of Transportation that you can relocate it and re-assemble it (which will not be free).
- When the Regional Transportation District’s CEO and general manager traveled to Denver last year, she found herself struggling to figure out how to use the system she’d been just hired to run.
- A spokeswoman for Gov. Jared Polis' office did not immediately say whether the governor would sign it.
- The Front Range Passenger Rail project is looking ever more likely with the support from state leaders and the federal government.
- The sponsor of a bill that would allow the town of Parker to start the long process of leaving the Regional Transportation District withdrew the legislation on Tuesday. Town officials have complained that the suburb on the southeast fringes of the Denver area does not receive enough transit service.
- Support for the project among political leaders and the intense population growth along the Front Range are two key reasons why Amtrak wants to invest in Colorado.
- Colorado's transportation plan leaves RTD out in the cold and bets big on roads and other initiatives.
- Colorado’s transportation system could get a major upgrade in the coming years. Both the state legislature and Congress will debate funding proposals this spring that mean billions of dollars in new revenue for Colorado’s roads, public transit and more. CPR’s growth and transportation reporter Nathaniel Minor helps sort it out.
- The Regional Transportation District will restart planning of its long-delayed commuter rail line between Denver, Boulder and Longmont, with a focus on a bare-bones version that could get rolling sooner.
- DeAngelis spoke with Ryan Warner of Colorado Matters about how new mass shootings like the one in Boulder bring him straight back to April 1999.
- More clinicians and an incoming homeless outreach coordinator come at a time where the need is high and mark a gradual shift in how RTD handles safety and security.
- The shuttle service would operate 12 round trips during peak travel days between the Denver metro and Eagle County.
- The proposal is already reopening old fault lines in one of the state’s most intense debates.
- “Don't minimize your trauma," one Columbine survivor said. “Your trauma is yours and your experience is yours.
- Fees are the backbone of this proposal, not taxes.
