Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about park-and-rides

Household income of transit riders, broken down by how they get to the bus or the train. People who walk to transit tend to make much less than people who drive, but the RTD prioritizes driving anyway. Image: RTD

To Combat Inequality, Denver Must Do More for People Who Walk to Transit

By David Sachs | Nov 28, 2016 | 3 Comments

Household income of transit riders, broken down by how they get to the bus or the train. People who walk to transit tend to make much less than people who drive, but the RTD prioritizes driving anyway

Study: Free Parking at Rail Stations Is Costing RTD Big Time

By David Sachs | Aug 2, 2016 | 9 Comments

There’s no such thing as free parking. Just ask RTD. It costs the agency millions of dollars a year to give away spaces at its expansive park-and-ride lots, according to a study it released last month [PDF]. Across metro Denver, RTD could raise tens of millions of dollars annually if it charged for parking. That’s money which could be […]

RTD Explores What Would Happen If Drivers Had to Pay to Park at Stations

By David Sachs | Jun 10, 2016 | 5 Comments

A regressive Colorado law makes it illegal for RTD to charge most drivers for parking at the agency’s stations. Problem is, parking spaces cost a fortune for transit agencies to build — around $20,000 per space in Denver. Giving away that commodity passes the cost on to passengers and leaves a lot of money on […]

RTD Loses Millions on Parking Because State Legislators Wanted It That Way

By David Sachs | May 25, 2016 | 5 Comments

Building and running parking lots is a bad way for transit agencies to spend money — giving those parking spaces away for free is even worse. But that’s exactly what RTD is required to do by state law [PDF]. If RTD charged drivers just $1.50 per day, the agency would raise an extra $8.2 million a year, […]

Why the A-Line to Denver International Airport Costs $9

By David Sachs | Apr 29, 2016 | 12 Comments

A lot has been made of the $9 fare to get to and from Denver International Airport on RTD’s gleaming new A-Line. As Streetsblog reported a few weeks ago, it’s more expensive than airport rail in comparable American cities, but about the same as in San Francisco. CBS4 and ABC7 did similar stories more recently. Why […]