What Denver Council Member Robin Kniech Learned From Relying on RTD
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Kniech experienced the everyday indignities, inconveniences, and outright hazards that Denver transit riders know all too well.
Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about RTD
To Combat Inequality, Denver Must Do More for People Who Walk to Transit
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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
Despite What You May Have Heard, the Car Is Still King in Denver
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The Mile High City has the internet bursting at the servers with superlatives about its unmatched quality of life — brought to you, in part, by a supposedly superb transit system. But the data tells another story. In 2002 the city set out to shape Denver’s neighborhoods with Blueprint Denver, a planning document that tried to […]
Here Are the Newly Elected Members of the RTD Board
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Last night’s election was good for transit in cities that asked voters to approve funding measures. But don’t get it twisted: Republicans have baked anti-transit, anti-city stances into their party platform, and they now control the White House and Congress. For RTD, an agency that relies on some federal funding, the potential implications are troubling. […]
Meet RTD District M Candidate Natalie Menten — A “Financial Watchdog”
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Even people who use Denver’s transit system daily might be surprised to find out that a publicly elected board of directors oversees the Regional Transportation District. It’s true. The 15-member RTD Board of Directors reps constituents from all over the map, literally, and makes decisions that affect Coloradans — in some ways more directly than […]
Meet RTD District I Candidate Lee Kemp, a Veteran of Transit
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Even people who use Denver’s transit system daily might be surprised to find out that a publicly elected board of directors oversees the Regional Transportation District. It’s true. The 15-member RTD Board of Directors reps constituents from all over the map, literally, and makes decisions that affect Coloradans — in some ways more directly than […]