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Denver Has a New App That Shows The Best Way to Get Around

By David Sachs | Feb 23, 2016 | 5 Comments

Today Mayor Michael Hancock and Transportation Director Crissy Fanganello introduced the Go Denver app, which lets people sort their trip options by cost, speed, and environmental impact before choosing how to travel. It’ll tell you how many calories each option burns too. The app compares several choices: Transit (with real-time data from RTD), walking, and biking […]

What the Broncos Parade Says About Denver’s Transit System

By David Sachs | Feb 22, 2016 | 42 Comments

Compared to a typical weekday, about 90,000 more people rode RTD trains and buses on the Tuesday of the Broncos Super Bowl parade. Ridership ballooned 28 percent, giving Denver’s transit system its busiest day ever with 409,000 boardings. To deal with the demand, RTD added service to several rail and bus lines, but also had to detour bus routes that […]

RTD Director Menten: $15 Million for Transit? No Thanks, Spend It on Roads

By David Sachs | Feb 16, 2016 | 13 Comments

You’d think the leaders of RTD would want to shepherd the Denver area’s transit system into the modern era, but RTD board member Natalie Menten would rather see Colorado transportation dollars go toward highways than transit. Menten, who represents parts of Wheat Ridge, Lakewood, and Golden, told Complete Colorado that transit doesn’t deserve the $15 million […]

Public Works Plans Quick Fixes to Union Station Streets Before A-Line Opens

By David Sachs | Jan 14, 2016 | 1 Comment

Union Station officials estimate that 30,000 people a day will pass through the transit hub and commercial center after the A-Line to DIA opens on April 22. Problem is, the streets around the station aren’t designed to handle the influx: Drivers drop off and pick up passengers in the bike lane and accelerate through crosswalks. Unless the design is changed, conflicts […]

Eyes on the Street: Ped Bridge to Connect Neighborhoods to Blake St. Station

By David Sachs | Jan 12, 2016 | 2 Comments

Department of Public Works crews lifted the main piece of a pedestrian bridge and set it in place yesterday near the rail station at 38th and Blake, which will open in April as the second stop on the A-Line to Denver International Airport. When it opens, the 230-foot bridge will cross train tracks that have separated Cole […]

Hallelujah: RTD Launches Real Time Data on Local Bus Routes

By David Sachs | Jan 6, 2016 | 9 Comments

It’s been a long, long time coming. We’re talking years. But today RTD announced that transit riders can finally track their buses in real time. Before you get too excited, there are some caveats. The real-time data only works on local buses; RTD will launch the service for express and regional routes later this year, said RTD […]

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