RTD in Crisis Part 3: Here’s How to Fix RTD
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Poor management must be overcome. Inadequate funding needs to be addressed. And disinterested elected officials should be engaged. But RTD's problems have deeper roots.
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RTD in Crisis Part 2: A Failure of Leadership
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A failure of leadership caused the current crisis at the Regional Transportation District. Gov. Polis, members of the Colorado General Assembly and RTD's board of directors are to blame.
RTD is in Crisis: Part 1
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People in the Denver Metro are ditching public transportation as a growing list of problems at the Regional Transportation District have become a full-blown crisis.
Drivers to RTD: I Quit
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Yesterday, the Regional Transportation District cancelled at least 38 trains, which is the latest round of service disruptions caused by an ongoing driver shortage. The fiasco did not happen overnight, but has been building as most of the drivers RTD hired in the last two years have quit.
RTD’s Board Told What It Takes to Increase Ridership. But Will It Listen?
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A celebrated transit planner who is so talented that he even got Houston bus ridership to increase may not be able to bring the same success to Denver for one simple reason: politics.
The RTD Transit Board Is Elected by You. Get to Know the Candidates at a Forum on Tuesday.
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The public can listen in on the phone, and we'll livestream the event on Facebook.