Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about RTD

RTD Needs to Raise Its Game on Transit-Oriented Development

By David Sachs | Oct 15, 2015 | 9 Comments

If you build good transit, it will serve a lot more people if you also build walkable places around the stations. Without that development, your transit system won’t ever reach its potential. When it comes to making effective use of the land by its stations, RTD has some catching up to do, according to initial results from an […]

Coloradans Are Driving Less, But Agencies Keep Spending on Expanding Roads

By David Sachs | Sep 29, 2015 | 4 Comments

People in the Southwest are driving less and using transit more, but transportation spending doesn’t reflect those trends, according to a new report from the Southwestern Energy Efficiency Project. Instead state DOTs are building more roads, as though nothing has changed. Meanwhile regional transportation agencies like the Denver Regional Council of Governments aren’t spending enough on […]

Raising EcoPass Cost Without Good Data Could Hurt Ridership, Accessibility

By David Sachs | Sep 11, 2015 | No Comments

Business owners and transit advocates are upset with RTD for a proposal that would raise the price of the transit agency’s business EcoPass, a heavily discounted employer-sponsored fare card, by about 18.3 percent. Businesses don’t like the hike because it hurts their bottom line, but the real concern is that it could hurt accessibility and dwindle ridership. The increase is […]

Mayor Hancock, City Council Have No Excuse to Shortchange Transit

By David Sachs | Sep 8, 2015 | 2 Comments

Mayor Michael Hancock has been quick to tout Denver’s status as a post-recession boom town, but not so quick to use the city’s bulging purse to fund transit and active transportation. That should change, if elected officials follow through on their recently announced budget priorities. According to the City Council’s budget priorities, “transit infrastructure and safety” top the list. The City […]

Denver Can Do Better Than Its Shoddy Connections to Transit

By David Sachs | Sep 3, 2015 | 5 Comments

Denver’s transit network is growing, but no government body has taken responsibility for improving access to train stations and bus stops — not RTD, not Denver Public Works, not the Colorado Department of Transportation, not Denver’s elected officials. It’s the city’s low-income residents who bear the brunt of this failure. Those are the findings from a report released today by the transit advocates at Mile […]

How Will Car2Go’s Service Changes Affect Denver Traffic?

By David Sachs | Aug 27, 2015 | No Comments

The tiny smart cars in Car2Go’s fleet sit unused much longer in neighborhoods outside of Denver’s urban core than inside it, so the car-share company will shrink its “home area” — the places where car2go drivers can pick up and drop off the vehicles — to exclude neighborhoods like Athmar Park, Wash Park, and Park Hill. The change begins September 14. […]

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