- The Denver metro area's rail system mostly neglects the dense, walkable parts of the city. Why is that?
- Denver-area voters allowed transit planners to spend billions of dollars laying rail track. But almost two decades later, who actually uses it?
- Pods of the future, an unopened RTD luggage tag, a bus to Loveland and much more.
- There’s been massive investment in passenger rail lines in Metro Denver over the last 15 years. But these billions of dollars have done little to shift how people move around here. Why is that? It’s one of the questions driving a new podcast from CPR News. “Ghost Train” is out now. It’s about building a greener transportation system in Colorado - both the obstacles and new thinking. It’s the brainchild of CPR transportation reporter Nathaniel Minor, who’s here to share the first episode.
- Denver had dreams of becoming a world-class city. But it wasn't until the turn of the millennium that it found a way to get there: trains.
- Ghost Train is the story of how one polluted, traffic-choked city went all in on trains, and what happened when that plan jumped the track.
- By 2027, about 30 percent of the bus network will have changed — the most significant overhaul since the late 1970s.
- The bill will incentivize shifts toward carpooling, telecommuting, and public transit.
- After voters elected Vince Buzek to the RTD board in 2018, he became a vocal advocate for completing that now-underfunded and unfinished program.
- The Colorado Department of Transportation's new rule was approved by a 10-1 vote Thursday. It could shift $6.7 billion to greener modes of transportation by 2050.
- If approved, the rule that could shift resources away from polluting highway expansion projects — and would be sharply felt in quickly growing communities along the Front Range.
- That money will go toward expanding highways like Interstate 70 at Floyd Hill, construction work at DIA, and more.
- The announcement comes after residents in the Front Range experienced the worst ozone season in decades.
- The money comes from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which Congress passed earlier this year.
- Local governments in the northwest corner of the Denver metro are already pushing RTD to provide more transit services there.
- A state-commissioned analysis projects that a big reduction in greenhouse gases is possible through aggressive zero-emissions vehicle policies.
