Trip Planner is a web-based service that is designed to help RTD customers design the most efficient transit trip to their desired destination.  Unfortunately, the old Trip Planner program had many weaknesses, directing customers along exceptionally long and convoluted routes.  The problems appeared to be most acute when reaching the planned destination entailed a transfer between two transit routes.  
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Democracy is best practiced by an educated public. 
One means of public education is ensuring that citizens have convenient access to the information that policy leaders employ in their deliberations.  This includes access to staff policy memorandums and other supporting materials.
Having worked at he city of Boulder for six years, where all non-confidential materials that staff prepares for Council meetings and [...]

Last evening, the RTD Board initiated the 2009 Budget Preparation Process.  As a charge to my fellow Board members, I offered the following thoughts:

Tonight we embark on the long process for pulling together RTD’s 2009 budget.  We know the budget preparation process is always difficult, balancing competing priorities in an effort to best serve the [...]