- RTD’s new CEO and General Manager Debra Johnson invited Polis to join a board meeting for an “open and transparent dialogue” about the rail line. But there wasn't much dialogue.
- The Regional Transportation District is drawing up plans to kickstart its dormant Boulder and Longmont rail project. CEO and General Manager Debra Johnson told a special board meeting Tuesday that her staff will deliver a plan to the board within 60 days.
- Remember that 'large boulder the size of a large boulder' that fell onto a highway in southwest Colorado last week?
- After seeing tens of thousands of its passengers stay home in 2020, the Regional Transportation District hopes they’ll be back on buses and trains this year. Still, there are a lot of unknowns: when will vaccines be distributed more widely? Will more people continue to work from home? RTD’s new leader Debra Johnson has been thinking about all those questions. She spoke with Colorado Matters host Avery Lill.
- The suburban town of about 50,000 saw its two bus lines cut last year as RTD struggled through the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
- RTD says it will no longer automatically reject job applicants with a certain number of points on their driver's license.
- The governor says RTD has a “statutory and ethical duty” to voters to complete the FasTracks plan.
- More than 250 union workers were to be cut, but $200 million in new federal stimulus money will allow RTD to undo that.
- "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.
