Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about RTD

Polis, Hancock, Sadik-Khan: Highlights From Today’s Bicycle Conference

By Andy Bosselman | Feb 7, 2019 | 2 Comments

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock gave uninspiring speeches at Bicycle Colorado’s Moving People Forward conference today in Denver. But the two followed Janette Sadik-Khan, the former New York City transportation commissioner whose book “Streetfight” calls for an “urban revolution.” (Read the Streetsblog Denver interview.) Sadik-Khan helped the Big Apple transform its streets from […]

These screen shots show how RTD rides will be integrated into the Uber app. Image: RTD.

Uber Partners with Denver Transit — What Could Go Wrong?

By Andy Bosselman | Jan 31, 2019 | 20 Comments

It’s exciting — and troubling — that RTD partnered with Uber to allow riders to plan trips and buy tickets from within the ride-sharing company’s app.

RTD's new driverless shuttle at a bus stop. Photo: RTD.

RTD’s Robot Bus Launch: A video, 7 Pics and Mayor Hancock’s Selfie

By Andy Bosselman | Jan 30, 2019 | 2 Comments

Yesterday, the Regional Transportation District kicked off the first-ever passenger service on a driverless electric bus in Colorado. The little, futuristic-looking bus will carry up to 12 passengers at a time along RTD’s newest route, the 61AV. It will originate at the Peña Boulevard transit station, go to a Park-n-Ride facility and hit three stops […]

This detail of a larger map in the book shows RTD's high-frequency transit network. From "Trains, Buses, People." All map images: Island Press.

Denver’s Buses and Trains Are Not Useful to Most People. A New Book Shows Why.

By Andy Bosselman | Jan 29, 2019 | 62 Comments

In a new book, Christof Spieler covers the essential but often neglected features that make public transit successful. Its illustrated atlas of 47 transit systems includes Denver’s Regional Transportation District and shows what each city gets right — and where they fail.

RTD's 61AV autonomous shuttle service will launch January 29.

Ride the Robot Bus: RTD Will Launch a Driverless Shuttle

By Andy Bosselman | Jan 22, 2019 | 9 Comments

Starting next Tuesday, you will be able to hop off of the Regional Transportation District’s A-Line train and into an automated electric shuttle. The vehicle, which is part of a pilot project, will not be useful to many people as it circulates around a virtually empty tract of land near Denver International Airport. But the new mobility […]

Does Denver’s Regional Transportation District Have a Marketing Problem?

By Xavier Williams | Jan 11, 2019 | 2 Comments

This guest commentary originally appeared on the Denver Urbanism Blog. Last week, the Regional Transportation District announced that in February Pauletta Tonilas will become the agency’s next general manager of communications. The former RTD executive will return to Denver from Los Angeles where she served as chief communications officer of LA Metro, an agency known for […]

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