- Debra Johnson takes the reins as the agency prepares for large-scale cuts.
- But the plan still lacks funding, and CDOT says it has other priorities.
- RTD ridership is down 60 percent due to the pandemic, but tens of thousands of people still rely on transit every day in Metro Denver. To protect those riders, RTD is proposing significant changes.
- The market is weathering a sputtering economy and low inventory issues.
- The agency faces a shortfall of $215 million in 2021, and, with no federal bailout on the horizon, plans drastic staffing cuts just to keep service levels steady.
- While ridership has plummeted across its system since March, the declines have been most notable on its commuter-focused services to and from downtown Denver.
- The 13-mile commuter rail connecting Denver and the northern suburbs will have conductors on trains instead of armed security officers.
- Updated 2:36 p.m. Voters in Boulder and Longmont have impatiently waited as the Regional Transportation District opened rail line after rail line across the Denver metro in the last seven years, wondering when they’ll get theirs. The answer, in a nutshell, is not anytime soon.
- "Our senior management makes an outrageous amount of money,” said board member Kate Williams.
- The judge's ruling means the Blue Book will go to press with the legislator's language intact.
- Voters passed the Gallagher Amendment in 1982 as a way to limit residential property taxes.
- More than 800 positions will be eliminated, with some 700 of those including bus drivers, light rail operators and mechanics.
- Colorado's stay-at-home order kept people off the roads during the first half of this year. But it didn't slow traffic deaths.
- The Denver-area transit agency faces a pandemic-induced $166 million gap for 2021.
- The model predicted a “notable demand” for regional rail service by 2045 which puts it in the middle of comparable passenger rail systems across the country.
- The fire burned up trees and loosened rocks, so landslides and falling rocks are now far more likely — especially during rainstorms.
