RTD’s new plan to clean up its bus fleet: hundreds of hybrids, dozens of EVs
The agency’s new fleet transition plan plots out a path toward RTD’s target of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
RTD board votes to extend CEO Debra Johnson’s contract to 2027
No directors mentioned a CPR News investigation that found RTD, under Johnson, has paid out more than $700,000 in settlements with outgoing employees.
A dozen senior leaders have left RTD in recent years. Some say CEO Debra Johnson is why
Colorado’s largest transit agency has paid out more than $700,000 in settlement agreements.
RTD to roll out credit and debit card tap-to-pay system in 2025
Next year, customers will be able to just tap their credit or debit card.
RTD owns an old rail line to Boulder. It may become a bicycle trail
Boulder County planners have had their eyes on the forgotten line for years.
Boulder’s explicit traffic safety signs are the latest real-looking fakes on Colorado roads
Several of the signs were concentrated along 28th Street, a busy north-south thoroughfare that the city has identified as being particularly dangerous.
Polis’ new Colorado transportation vision: Fewer car trips and doubling bicycle, transit and walking by 2035
The Polis Administration’s “Colorado Transportation Vision 2035” document is meant to address that shortfall and builds on several climate, housing and transportation policies and laws it’s drafted or supported in recent years.
Industry group sues Colorado over its new car rental fees that will fund passenger rail, buses
The revenue from the $3-a-day “congestion impact fee,” which is set to start being collected on Jan. 1, 2025, is meant to help pay for new transit services.
Telluride gondola will carry on after voters approve tax increases
Measure 3A, which will increase property, sales and lodging taxes enough to raise $8.2 million a year, passed 53 percent to 47 percent.
New RTD board members say they want more accountability, transparency, and riders
Most of the newly elected directors-to-be co-signed a manifesto that calls for improvements to service quality, safety and reliability.
Measure to forever lift TABOR restrictions from RTD appears heading toward victory
With 7A’s apparent success, RTD’s billion-dollar-plus budget will have no checks on it beyond the ups and downs of the sales tax that provides most of its revenue.
RTD’s former chief of police sues agency, alleging racial discrimination
But RTD’s newly released termination letter says the chief was fired for speeding, not wearing a body camera and other misconduct.
Will frustrations over RTD’s unreliable light rail service lead voters to punish or protect it?
Ballot Measure 7A would protect RTD’s budget from the state Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.
The Winter Park Ski train will run more often and be cheaper this season
State officials announced price cuts of more than 40 percent and service improvements to the line.
Competitive RTD races are attracting unusually big dollars
After a quiet, mostly uncontested slate of races in 2022, there’s booming interest in political positions in charge of steering Colorado’s largest transportation authority amid growing interest in transit.
Colorado lands $66 million federal grant that officials say will ‘turbocharge’ Front Range rail
The federal government will give Colorado $66 million to upgrade part of a freight rail line between Denver and Longmont that state officials hope will someday soon hold passengers as […]
