transit

Lyft follows Uber again with a new feature that displays public transit options within its app. Officials hope the new feature will boost the tiny number of RTD riders who already use ride sharing services to get to rail stations and bus stops.

On Wednesday we ran a story, Fossil Fuels Choke Denver With Air Quality 3 Times Worse Than Beijing. Several critiques of the piece showed up in its comments section and on Reddit. This post responds to three. 1) The pollution is the fault of an inversion layer, a weather pattern that traps particulate matter. The weather did not create … Continued

Today from downtown Denver, the peaks of the Rocky Mountain foothills were barely visible through the brown cloud of pollution that covered the region with an unhealthy level of fine particulate matter. 

Google Maps will now show you nearby Lime scooters, pedal bikes and e-bikes in its transit directions. The move highlights how tech companies are racing to become the go-to app when planning a trip—and the many options excluded from Google Maps.

We look at the cost, route, ridership numbers, vehicles, station design and other issues related to the Regional Transportation District’s second-newest railroad, the train between Union Station and Denver International Airport, including a 35 percent decline in ridership.

Drivers have killed four people on Colfax Ave. already this year. City officials could move fast to fix the deadly street — and the killing will continue until they do.

Quiet will finally come to people who live and work along the A-Line train to the airport. Commuter and freight trains will stop routinely blowing their horns at the line's nine road crossings within Denver starting March 1.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock gave uninspiring speeches at Bicycle Colorado’s Moving People Forward conference today in Denver. But the two followed Janette Sadik-Khan, the former New York City transportation commissioner whose book “Streetfight” calls for an “urban revolution.”  (Read the Streetsblog Denver interview.) Sadik-Khan helped the Big Apple transform its streets from … Continued

Janette Sadik-Khan, who will be the keynote speaker at Bicycle Colorado’s Moving People Forward conference tomorrow, transformed New York’s streets with dramatic pedestrian improvements, 400 miles of new bike lanes and the repurposing of 60 asphalt plazas into park-like places when she was the New York City transportation commissioner under former Mayor Mike Bloomberg. In … Continued