Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about commuter rail

A G line test train approaches Arvada. Photo: RTD

With G Line Opening, Has RTD Figured out Positive Train Control?

By Andy Bosselman | Apr 23, 2019 | 3 Comments

When the Regional Transportation District opens the long-delayed G-Line on Friday, is it a sign that the agency has finally worked out the electronics difficulties that bedeviled the launch of its first three commuter trains? RTD is the first transit agency in the U.S. to deploy a positive train control system from the ground up […]

At Denver Union Station, a sign indicates that test trains for the G-Line operate from platform seven. Photo: Andy Bosselman

The G-Line From Denver to Arvada and Wheat Ridge Will Finally Open April 26

By Andy Bosselman | Apr 1, 2019 | 12 Comments

The G-Line train from Denver Union Station to Arvada and Wheat Ridge will finally open April 26 after more than two years of delays. Like the University of Colorado A-Line, glitches in the positive train control system caused the line to fail federal safety standards. But federal approvals finally arrived late last week.

Longer Airport Trains Rolling After Ridership Increased 6 Percent

By Andy Bosselman | Feb 28, 2019 | 6 Comments

Denver’s airport trains are twice as long since growing ridership pressed the Regional Transportation District to expand the service. RTD’s University of Colorado A-Line trains grew from two-cars to four on January 13, which follows a six percent increase in ridership in 2018 over the previous year. Since the line launched in April of 2016, […]

A passenger prepares to board an RTD A-Line train at Union Station on January 30. Streetsblog file photo by Andy Bosselman.

Facts & Stats: Everything You Should Know About Denver’s Airport Train

By Andy Bosselman | Feb 27, 2019 | 45 Comments

We look at the cost, route, ridership numbers, vehicles, station design and other issues related to the Regional Transportation District’s second-newest railroad, the train between Union Station and Denver International Airport, including a 35 percent decline in ridership.

Riders queue for the Auraria bus. Photo: RTD.

Report: Denver Transit Riders Switch to Cars as RTD Fails to Get the Basics Right

By Andy Bosselman | Feb 13, 2019 | 56 Comments

Regular transit riders are giving up on Denver’s buses and trains and hopping into road-clogging cars instead. RTD keeps passengers waiting too long and its routes fail to go to the places where most people want to go, says a new survey.

Denver Airport Train Will Get Less Horn-y

By Andy Bosselman | Feb 8, 2019 | 1 Comment

Quiet will finally come to people who live and work along the A-Line train to the airport. Commuter and freight trains will stop routinely blowing their horns at the line's nine road crossings within Denver starting March 1.

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