Denveright
Imagine the Money to Improve Denver Transit Is in Your Hands. How Would You Spend It?
The Build Your Own Transit System survey lets people prioritize projects with a budget of $100.
May 8, 2017
Embracing Density and Transit Could Save Denver Households Thousands of Dollars a Year
By 2040 each additional household will pay $3,600 more per year for transportation, energy, and water than if the city embraces dense development and transit, according to a new report assembled for the Blueprint Denver task force.
March 24, 2017
Fixing Denver Transit: Making It Easy to Walk or Bike to the Station
Accessing bus stops and train stations has to get easier outside of driving, according to the "State of the System" report from the Denveright transit planning process.
March 20, 2017
Fixing Denver Transit: Fairer Fares
If the bus and train are lifelines for getting to work or the grocery store, prohibitively expensive fares can have disastrous effects. A one-way trip on an RTD bus or train runs $2.60 for a local trip and and $4.50 for a regional one. No peer city is higher except for Salt Lake.
March 13, 2017
Denver Post: Prioritizing People Instead of Cars Is “Extreme”
The Denver Post wants the city to slow down on this whole 21st Century transportation thing. In its latest editorial ("No, Denver Shouldn't Make Driving More Difficult"), the paper warns against setting aside street space so people can get around quickly and safely on the bus or a bike.
February 24, 2017
Fixing Denver Transit: Waiting for the Bus With Dignity
Only about 5 percent of the city's 3,000 stops have a shelter. That's 150 citywide.
February 15, 2017
Denver’s Unwalkable Rail Network, Visualized
Only 8 percent of Denverites live within a half-mile of a rail station -- about a 10-minute walk -- "despite growth in rail transit in Denver over the last 15 years."
December 13, 2016
Lots of Denver Neighborhoods Were Denser in 1950 Than They Are Today
More homes and destinations closer together meant more people could easily walk, bike, or ride transit where they needed to go.
December 9, 2016
What Denver Council Member Robin Kniech Learned From Relying on RTD
Kniech experienced the everyday indignities, inconveniences, and outright hazards that Denver transit riders know all too well.
December 5, 2016
Jarrett Walker on How Denver Can Become a Great Transit City
The transit expert talked about the path for Denver to become a true transit city, why we need to pass a funding measure for city transit, and how electing a president with an anti-transit platform will affect cities like Denver.
November 18, 2016
