transit

Appeals court invokes ‘drastic’ sanction, throws out multimillion-dollar claim in RTD rail construction project

Aug 5, 2024

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Michael Karlik

Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday determined the $5.7 million a trial judge awarded a subcontractor for its work on the Regional Transportation District’s commuter rail expansion is invalid because the company initially sought more than two times that amount without any basis for doing so. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals interpreted for…
RTD’s two-month Zero Fare for Better Air program ends Thursday

Aug 31, 2023

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Scott Weiser

The Regional Transportation District’s “Zero Fare for Better Air” free transit ozone reduction initiative will end as of midnight Thursday . The state-funded program – which expanded by one month this year – provided no-cost access to all RTD’s services during the months of July and August. The collaborative, statewide initiative was funded through a…
Colorado transportation funding bill clears Senate, House eyes backup plan

Mar 28, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

DENVER – The Colorado Senate passed legislation Wednesday to use sales tax money already in the state budget to fix up the state’s clogged, aging transportation system. After days of debate and amendments, Senate Bill 1 passed 35-0 and moves to the House, where Democrats have an eight-seat majority and a lot of ideas on how…
Updated: America’s Cabinet includes lawmakers from Colorado: Duran, Winter and Moreno

Jan 30, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran, state Rep. Faith Winter and state Sen. Dominick Moreno were in Washington, D.C., Monday to take a seat on America’s Cabinet, a shadow group to President Trump’s advisers but with their own take. The program is a part of the nonpartisan Young Elected Officials Network, a national group of leaders…
CDOT extending the Bustang to the Eastern Plains next week as the Outrider

Dec 27, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

A new version of the Bustang will gallop across the Eastern Plains, the Colorado Department of Transportation announced Wednesday morning. The popular bus service up and down most of the Front Range and into the mountains and back will add service on U.S. 50 between Lamar and Pueblo, starting next Tuesday. The line will be…
That Grantham speech on doomed transportation bill may haunt the Capitol

Apr 28, 2017

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John Tomasic

The session’s unloved grand bipartisan transportation measure, House Bill 1242, is dead, but the closing remarks — you might say the sickbed epitaph — delivered for the bill by Republican sponsor and Senate President Kevin Grantham are worth revisiting, especially given that, in the last week, and with a little more than a week left…
Denver City Council’s small lot parking code dispute leads to delay

Mar 8, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Almost every new resident of Denver adds another automobile to the city’s already crowded roads and highways, and those cars and trucks need a place to park when their owners are home or elsewhere. How to come up with those spaces was the source of a somewhat tense exchange on Denver City Council and led…
Transportation plan should cover transit, bike paths, local leaders say

Mar 2, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Wider interstate lanes are a top priority in a statewide transportation plan being drafted at the Capitol. Wednesday, 64 elected officials from across Colorado signed a letter urging legislative leaders to consider other forms of transportation, including transit and bike paths. “Multimodal transportation is often thought of as benefiting urban areas, but as a local elected official I…
O’Toole: Transit doesn’t need state taxpayer funding

Feb 26, 2017

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According to a misleading new report, Colorado ranks 29th in per capita funding for transit, spending just one-twentieth of the national average. Thus, there is a “funding gap” for public transit. But Colorado apparently ranks 29th only in state transit funding. What’s left out is that most transit funding comes from the regional level. The…
Denver Council priorities could cost $1.5B

Feb 10, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Faced with one of the fastest growth rates among major U.S. cities nationwide, Denver City Council has identified a range of priorities and goals to help guide budgeting decisions and to decide policy priority areas. Those include more than $1 billion in infrastructure needs and projects alone. Each year, the Council holds a retreat to…