RTD Public Meetings

The first public meeting about the proposed service changes was last Saturday with the second meeting tonight in Boulder. It is obvious from the extent of the service changes that RTD no longer has the money to run a decent system. It is obvious from the fact that it is asking multinationals instead of local citizens or businesses for advice about what to do that RTD is not going to be able to solve its financial problems on its own. We need to be calling our city council representatives and our county commissioners to make sure that our cities and counties are taking part in transit planning AND figuring out ways to get more money for transit.

A list of meetings by place and a list of changes by route number is on the RTD website. For some reason, the list of changes is no longer organized by service cuts, additions, and adjustments. You have to actually look up the bus routes that you take individually to find out if you should be concerned.

Here is a list of meetings by date with public transit information added.

Monday, October 3

7 pm

East Boulder Senior Center

5660 Sioux Drive, Boulder

Bus: 203 (Bus gets there about ten minutes late, runs hourly until 11. This route is being combined with the 225 in such a way that there may be cuts in service.

Tuesday October 4

9 am

Heather Gardens Community Center

2888 S. Heather Gardens Way, Aurora

Bus and Light Rail: The 130 is an eleven minute walk away and Nine Mile Station (H line) is a twenty minute walk according to Google Maps. Neither walk is easy to explain and neither may be safe. However, the 130 does run at least every half hour, and it is proposed that this road will get service if the changes go through. The H line currently runs every fifteen minutes although again this is a route that may be cut.

noon and 7 pm

RTD Administrative Offices

1600 Blake Street, downtown Denver

Bus: 0, 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 15L, 20, 28, 32, 44, Free Mall Shuttle, AF, BV, BX, L

RTD's offices are right next to Market Street Station so a lot of buses serve this area. The Free Mall Shuttle connects the area to all light rail lines and to buses that run to Civic Center Station and the southern end of downtown. The 2 is being eliminated. The 0, 3, 3L, 6, 28, 32,  and BX are going to have service reductions. Service along the 44 is being reduced, but the route is being extended. I am not sure what is happening with the Longmont buses.

7pm

American Legion #193

5110 Morrison Road, Denver

Bus: 11, 51 The 4, which being discontinued, does not run at this time. Service is going to be reduced for the 51.

7 pm

Adams City High School

7200 Quebec Parkway, Commerce City

Bus: 48, every half hour until around 8, then hourly until after 10:30.

Wednesday, October 5

7 pm

Arvada City Hall

8101 Ralston Road, Arvada

Bus: 52, 72, 5 minute walk from the 76. The route of the 76 is being shortened.

7pm

Parker Recreation Center

17301 E. Lincoln Avenue, Parker

Bus: none, both the P and 410 stop running before the meeting ends. Maybe you can take the Parker Call-n-Ride which is slated to be eliminated.

Thursday, October 6

6 pm

Green Valley Ranch Recreation Center

4890 Argonne Way, Denver

Bus: None. The 169L might run late enough to get people home, but the last two buses run by here at 7:25 and 10:25.

7 pm

North High School

2960 North Speer Boulevard (Speer and Federal), Denver

Bus: 31, 28. Service reductions and additions are being proposed for the 31. The 28 route is going to be drastically shortened after 7 pm and service made extremely infrequent.

7 pm

Louisville Recreation Center

900 W. Via Appia Way

Bus: 228 which is going to be rerouted. The DASH is twelve minute walk away on good sidewalks.

Tuesday, October 11

7 pm

Brighton Recreation Center

555 N. 11th Avenue, Brighton

Bus: None? I cannot find any bus route information on Google Maps or the RTD website. What happened to RTD's system map?

Wednesday, October 12

1 pm

Castlewood Public Library

6739 S. Uinta Street, Centennial

Bus: 66. Both this line and the light rail lines that it serves may see service reductions.

4 pm (RTD once again schedules the Longmont meeting when no one can come.)

Longmont Senior Center

910 Longs Peak Avenue, Longmont

Bus: 326 and 327, within walking distance of the 8th & Coffman Park-n-Ride where the BOLT and the L stop. RTD proposes to make both these routes  a little bit shorter.

5 pm

Denver City Park Golf Course

2500 York Street, Denver

Bus: 32 which will no longer serve this area if the proposed changes go through. If I am mistaken about where the club house is, the 24 is a better route.

7 pm

Cook Park Recreation Center

7100 Cherry Creek South Drive, Denver

Bus: 65 and 79. The 79 is scheduled to be eliminated while the route of the 65 is being extended.

7 pm

Bemis Public Library

6014 S. Datura Street, Littleton

Bus: Seven minute walk from the 66 which is facing service reductions.

7 pm

Wheat Ridge City Hall

7500 W. 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge

Bus: 32, 76. The 32 onlyserves the stop on 29th a few times in the evening. Both of these routes are looking at making shorter runs.

Thursday, October 13

9 am

Windsor Gardens Community Center

595 S. Clinton Street, Denver

Bus: 3. The closest stop is scheduled to be eliminated and the 3 is looking at schedule reductions.

5:30 pm

College Hill Library

3705 W. 112th Avenue, Westminster

Bus: 31, 112. The 31 is facing small service reductions.

7 pm

Ken Caryl Middle School

6509 W. Ken Caryl Avenue, Littleton

Bus: 67. The 67 route is being shortened.

Note: Many service reductions are not listed here. I am only referring to service reductions that effect the routes that people may use to get to these meetings. For a full list, please see the RTD Website.