- "While we're fixated on rail because it's sexy and everyone wants to ride the iron horse, we have to keep in mind what might be more viable," Debra Johnson said.
- RTD is also looking to get more flexibility to contract out services to companies like Uber and Lyft.
- Colorado's 22-cent gasoline tax can't keep up with more people using the state's roads with more fuel-efficient vehicles.
- CDOT and RTD are both set to receive millions in relief money, funding transit projects and helping maintain workers.
- The route 11 bus was not exactly where Jesse Espinoza wanted to be on a recent morning. He had lost his job as a warehouse packer the day before and was on his way to sell plasma.
- RTD found that 40 percent of parking spaces at market-rate developments near transit stations go unused at peak hours.
- What would start as a few round trips a day between Fort Collins and Colorado Springs would grow into something much faster and longer — and costlier.
- RTD mobile tickets are also available on the Uber app, the Transit app and its own app.
- The Regional Transportation District plans to cut about 400 positions, starting with bus and rail operators this week.
- Widespread adoption of electric vehicles is a key part of Colorado’s climate roadmap.
- The project would add a third travel lane, a bicycle path, new wildlife crossings and other improvements.
- RTD would beef up its own small police force from 10 officers to more than 50 by 2025, and replace armed private security officers on its rail systems with transit safety ambassadors.
- “It seems like there’s a lot he doesn’t know,” board member Judy Lubow said of Polis.
- Coronavirus concerns could keep people from traveling.
- While budget cuts reflect a tough reality, Chief Financial Officer Heather McKillop said improved sales tax revenue means they aren’t as severe as initially projected.
- “It feels like we’ve been flying down a highway of hate. And it feels like today we took the exit,” said Ali Darhumb of Denver.
