As the Denver Post reported on Monday, ”RTD delays decision on how much to request from taxpayers,” the RTD Board decided to wait until its March 8 meeting before making a final decision on seeking a proposed tax increase for FasTracks in 2011.  The primary reason for this delay is the notice we received from some [...]

In one of the more audacious knocks to regional cooperation, Denver is making a bid for taking $7 million in funding away from transportation projects in Boulder County in order to cover the cost of their $25 million in desired improvements at the intersection of Peoria Street and Smith Road.  Here is the full story, [...]

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As the RTD Board approaches its preliminary decision regarding a potential ballot initiative to increase the FasTracks tax, we are beginning to receive feedback from some of our local public officials and editorial writers. This Monday, Sean Maher wrote an excellent piece in the Daily Camera, “FasTracks needs more fuel“.  While Sean wants to make [...]

One of my priority customer services goals has been to offer real-time bus location and arrival time information to RTD patrons.    RTD once experimented with a software program that promised to provide this real-time information, Next Bus.  The program was a failure, I hear, due to predictive software that estimated bus arrival times based on historic [...]

As expected, RTD staff offered their proposal at the end of last month for speeding completion of the FasTracks program.  The full staff presentation is available here:  Annual Program Evaluation ( I addressed some of this material in a previous post).   In summary, their initial recommendation is a modest increase in the FasTracks sales tax of 0.2%.  With public support [...]