RTD thwarts owners’ plans

at former printing-plant site The transit agency has picked the location for a bus maintenance facility.

By Jeffrey Leib
The Denver Post

The new owners of the former Denver Post printing plant near the Mousetrap said RTD has iced their attempt to develop the 44-acre site by announcing its intention to build a bus maintenance operation there.
“We’re [...]

RTD considers former Post plant for new bus maintenance facility

By Kevin Flynn, Rocky Mountain News
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Already pinched by a tight schedule, RTD’s FasTracks program has to fit in an unexpected project – a new bus maintenance facility – and is eyeing the former Denver Post printing plant for it.
The 44-acre property at the intersection of Interstates 25 and 70 was vacated in [...]

FasTracks price tag swells

RTD braces for another increase due next month
By Kevin Flynn
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
 
RTD is bracing for another increase in the FasTracks program cost to be released next month, based on the new budget for just one of the projects approved Tuesday night.
With the West Corridor light rail’s new budget approved for an increase of 11.5 [...]

Cost of light rail spikes again

WEST CORRIDOR
By Jeffrey Leib
The Denver Post
The cost of the light-rail line to Lakewood and Golden has jumped to $707.6 million from $634.7 million just a year ago, RTD officials said Tuesday night.
The increase is largely caused by a nearly $80 million escalation in construction labor and material costs and is leading the Regional Transportation District [...]

Lakewood sure has arrived

In its designs for a light-rail station, one city sees an opportunity for riders to sit up and notice that
By Ann Schrader
The Denver Post
LAKEWOOD — Plain vanilla doesn’t cut it for Lakewood, which has an ice-cream-sundae vision for the Wadsworth Boulevard light-rail station.
Oak Street — the next station to the west on the 12.1-mile West [...]

Reward rather than award given to RTD

Honored for politics
Independence Institute, Colorado Libertarian Think Tank
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Recently, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) named Denver’s RTD the best transit agency in America. RTD is to be congratulated for receiving this award, but I have to ask, just what criteria did APTA use to bestow this honor?
Was it RTD’s ability to attract [...]

Win some, lose some

Denver able to sway statehouse on key issues
Carol Boigon, Denver City Councilwoman
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
During the 120-day state legislative session, laws are proposed that can greatly affect Denver residents. 
As chairperson of City Council’s General Government Committee, I oversee a process for reviewing proposed legislation, and, with the mayor’s office and the committee, I direct the [...]

Maybe mismanagement is RTD’s problem

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Leroy M Martinez, Denver
Thursday, May 22, 2008
I understand the concept of supply and demand. But when RTD’s riders are way down, they hike up the price because they are not making enough monies. Now they are getting too much riders because of the gas prices. They are still not making [...]

Unfair offers

 
Lawmakers need to fix flaw in condemnations
By Rocky Mountain News
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Several months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s notorious 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London – which expanded the right of local governments to condemn property for private development – analysts at Golden’s Independence Institute approached state lawmakers with an intriguing [...]

RTD buying unneeded land to satisfy UP deal

The agency must pay $15 million for 300 overpriced acres in Weld County even though the railroad’s relocation is dead.
By Jeffrey Leib
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 05/06/2008 11:34:05 PM MDT
 
RTD is paying nearly $15 million for about 300 acres of Weld County farmland it doesn’t need.
The Regional Transportation District arranged to buy the land as [...]