Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about RTD

RTD’s Flatiron Flyer Is an Upgrade, But Don’t Call It “Bus Rapid Transit”

By David Sachs | Jan 6, 2016 | 7 Comments

On Monday RTD offered free rides on its just-launched Flatiron Flyer bus routes between Denver and Boulder. The transit agency calls the system “bus rapid transit” or BRT, a phrase that’s been diluted with ho-hum projects in the United States. Mexico City, Bogota, Brisbane, and Curitiba in Brazil — these are the cities with BRT systems worth […]

RTD’s Long Awaited Smart Card Will Make Tentative Debut January 1

By David Sachs | Dec 22, 2015 | 17 Comments

Some transit systems have had smart cards — fare cards that passengers can add, store, and spend money on — for decades. Not so in Denver, where eight years have passed since the quest for modern fare-payment technology began. Drumroll, please: The wait is kind of sort of almost nearing an end. On January 1 RTD will launch a […]

Downtown Commuter Survey Reveals the Weakness of Denver Transit

By David Sachs | Dec 21, 2015 | 4 Comments

The Downtown Denver Partnership last week released the results of its commuter survey, an annual exploration of how people get to and from their workplaces downtown. DDP polled 5,740 commuters, which is almost 5 percent of all downtown workers. A plurality of people polled, about 41 percent, said they commute via transit. That’s less than the 44 percent […]

Does the Plan for I-25 and Broadway Do Enough for Biking and Walking?

By David Sachs | Dec 17, 2015 | 8 Comments

“The ‘Midtown’ of Denver.” That’s how a 95-page blueprint from various city agencies envisions the area around RTD’s I-25 and Broadway Station. The plan makes some exciting promises: Walkable, bikeable, transit-friendly streets and bridges would reconnect neighborhoods divided by I-25, the South Platte River, train tracks, and wide, fast roads. And planners want to create a new mixed-use neighborhood with housing, plazas, offices, retail […]

With New Transit Chief Dave Genova, What’s Next at RTD?

By David Sachs | Dec 16, 2015 | No Comments

The RTD Board of Directors offered Interim General Manager and CEO Dave Genova the permanent post late last week after the career RTD employee beat out two outsiders for the job. Phil Washington left the agency to run LA Metro in Los Angeles, and his legacy centers around FasTracks, the massive, voter-approved expansion of the region’s rail […]

Here’s How the RTD CEO Candidates Said They’d Make Denver Transit Better

By David Sachs | Dec 11, 2015 | 1 Comment

RTD held what amounted to a public job interview Thursday for three finalists hoping to fill the general manager and CEO post vacated by Phil Washington earlier this year. Stephanie Dawson, Richard Leary, and Dave Genova each had 20 minutes to answer questions about their experience and why they’d fit at RTD. Afterward they spent […]

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