I am pleased to report that, due to some unanticipated additional revenue for 2010, the RTD Board voted to preserve most of the service that was slated for cuts in January.  This includes the initial proposal to reduce service frequencies along Route 205, Route 228, and the Stampede.  The only remaining service efficiencies the Board approved were warranted due to low ridership rates.

I have been very clear, throughout this recent discussion of proposed service adjustments, that eliminating productive service should be among the last tools that RTD uses to balance its budget.  As I said to my Board colleagues during last week’s committee discussion:  “[Transit] service is our business.  Let’s hold the line on service and keep doing the job that we are sent here to do.”   I am pleased there was overwhelming majority support from my Board colleagues for keeping more transit service on the road.

You can read more about tonight’s decision following Daily Camera story: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_13605938.