August 2014 Service Change Meetings

Thursday, May 8

6pm
Reunion Recreation Center
17910 Parkside Drive North
Commerce City

7 pm
Aurora Public Library
14949 E. Alameda Parkway
Aurora


Monday, May 12
noon and 6 pm
RTD Administrative Offices
1600 Blake Street
Denver

Wednesday, May 14
6 pm
Boulder West Senior Center
909 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder

A list of service changes in here: http://www.rtd-denver.com/servicechanges-august2014.shtml

Two free bus tickets for people on Facebook

People who have liked the RTD Facebook page can get two free tickets through a special app. The tickets are probably good for anything up to a regional fare until the end of December.

Union Station Giveaway

There will also prizes given away at the Union Station Grand Opening
Friday, May 9, 11 am - 6 pm
17th and Wewatta
Denver
Bus: 6, AF, B, L
Light Rail: C, E, W
Everything is still on the current schedule. The new schedule will start on Sunday, May 11 which is also when buses move to the new bus box.

This is supposed to be a street party. We'll see how well RTD does fun.

Denver School Board may oppose the widening of I-70

Thursday, April 24 at 4:30, Public Comments start at 5:30
DPS Administration Building
900 Grant Street
Denver
Bus: 6
This bus stops close the DPS offices heading south. Heading north it stops on Lincoln, sharing a stop with the 0, 79L, and 83L.

This is a regular board meeting. Arturo Jimenez, the representative for north Denver, will introduce a resolution asking CDOT to do a full supplemental EIS of a reroute of I-70.

If you would like to speak, you need to call 720-423-3210 by 5pm on Wednesday. Individuals will be given 3 minutes each while groups can designate a single person to speak for ten minutes.

Sheridan Station Celebration

Saturday, April 26, 11am -1pm

Sheridan Station

Light Rail: W line

Bus: 50, 51

Neighbors in the area have been working on a concept called the twenty minute neighborhood where people can get anywhere in twenty minutes without driving. I am hoping that this effort will be a start of moving the millions of dollars that we spend forcing people to drive toward making it possible to walk.

This event is a party, a way to communicate the ideas that people have already developed, get feedback on those ideas, and to find out more about what people are thinking.

RTD Board has its April meeting on the 15th

RTD Board of Directors Meeting
Tuesday, April 15 at 5:30 pm
RTD Administrative Offices
1600 Blake Street
Denver
Bus: Still all that go downtown although this will change in May.

The RTD offices will stay on Blake Street even after Market Street Station closes on May 9.

On Saving AMTRAK's Southwest Chief

by Lindsey Jauregui

Part of the problem for the Southwest Chief in Colorado and surrounding areas is that the connecting routes were killed off when the Santa Fe Railway surrendered passenger service to AMTRAK back in 1971.

In Colorado, a great deal more ridership could be seen if the State DOT worked to promote a Denver train that would meet the Southwest Chief at La Junta (as the Santa Fe used to do), thus making it easier for rail travelers to reach the major population centers.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration has its research & testing facility trackage located near Pueblo, so there is money swimming around which could help to fund this -- the agencies involved just have to want to do so.

Private advocacy groups are hosting a transportation survey

Action 22 (Southeast Colorado), Club 20 (Western Slope), and Progressive 15 (Northeast Colorado) are pro-business advocacy groups that have put together a survey to direct their transportation advocacy.This survey may give Coloradans who live outside of the metro area an opportunity to ask for better bus funding. Unfortunately, trains are not on the survey, neither freight nor passenger.

We especially don't want these groups to be able to say that no one wants better buses.

Please take the survey before April 15: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ruraltransportation