OUTDOORS
10:04 am, Jun 8, 2010
Back in April, three Regional Transportation District buses were involved in major accidents, causing several deaths and severe injuries.
It looked like the incidents had subsided, a bad chapter from a particularly cruel month for RTD. But Sunday night, an RTD bus collided with a cyclist on the 16th Street Mall, near the... MORE
10:01 am, May 24, 2010
If you've been grumbling more and more as you try to get from one side of Denver to the other, don't worry, you're not getting impatient in your old age. After driving in the Denver area either declined or stagnated in 2007 and 2008, it picked up again in 2009, according to a new traffic report by the Denver Regional Council of Governments... MORE
9:58 am, May 13, 2010
On Sunday, the Regional Transportation District opened a new park-n-ride in Broomfield at 1stBank Center that will serve bus rapid transit lines meant to cut travel times between Denver and Boulder by 15 minutes (via the Daily Camera). It is one of many improvements along U.S. 36 to improve the flow of traffic.
Another, but surely less... MORE
10:45 am, May 3, 2010
Last month, a string of bus accidents and several deaths in the metro area all involved Regional Transportation District buses. It seems the sort of tragedy that could never occur with a trusty, yellow school bus.
But a 12-year-old boy, Diego Lemos, was whisked into surgery on Friday for severe injuries to his pelvis, leg, and foot after he was... MORE
11:28 am, Apr 30, 2010
United Airlines, Denver's largest carrier, is set to create the nation's largest airline---even bigger than Delta following its union with Northwest---if a merger with Continental Airlines takes place early next week as rumored.
The idea was explored about two years ago, notes New Mexico Business Weekly, without success. But this time, the... MORE
8:53 am, Apr 7, 2010
They say bad luck comes in threes. Let's hope that's the case for the Regional Transportation District.
Amid continued questions about two major incidents involving buses, and three resulting deaths (so far), a third serious accident occurred yesterday. This time, an RTD bus and a 43-year-old Lafayette cyclist collided at an... MORE
10:02 am, Apr 6, 2010
As Denver police sought video from the Regional Transportation District bus that left the corner of Eighth and Lincoln avenues littered with glass and metal, professor Heidi Strang talked with news outlets about the couple killed in the Saturday accident.
Dustin Peletier and Carla Miranda were passionate animation artists and... MORE
8:26 am, Apr 6, 2010
The scene after an RTD bus ran a red light late on Saturday was tragic. A 1996 Ford truck was smashed into a 7-Eleven parking lot, and a 2007 Volkswagen Rabbit was shattered.
The driver of the Rabbit died shortly after the accident, and the passenger died later, reports The Denver Post. At least 12 other people were injured, and... MORE
9:48 am, Mar 29, 2010
Earlier this month, I-70 shut down in both directions near Glenwood Springs after massive rocks, including a boulder as big as a truck, crashed onto the highway, making it unsafe. It was days before the highway reopened, and weeks later I-70 remains open only on one lane in each direction in areas where crews are working on repairs.... MORE
11:32 am, Mar 2, 2010
In a letter to the Vail Daily, Mary J. Linke puts forth one of the most articulate calls for leaders to intervene and do something about the insane five-hour return drives along I-70 into Denver, which stem from the metered, or controlled, traffic at the Eisenhower/Johnson tunnel. Now, she and hundreds of thousands of skiers and snowboarders... MORE
1:44 pm, Jan 6, 2010
"Forget the difficulty of finding the money to get FasTracks built," writes Kevin Flynn at Inside Lane. "RTD's bigger problem now is finding the money to be able to operate the rapid transit expansion after its planned 2017 completion."
The prognosis comes from officials who point out that although the cost of building FasTracks has decreased by... MORE
11:43 am, Dec 28, 2009
By now, thousands of skiers should have enjoyed cozy rides to Winter Park ski resort on the historic "Ski Train," which was recently saved from going out of business. Now, Amtrak has stalled---or stopped---the train again, writes The Denver Post, which dubs Amtrak a "killjoy."
When the Rio Grande Scenic ski train didn't leave Union Station for... MORE
11:56 am, Dec 18, 2009
Those sleek, WiFi-wired buses that travel between Colorado Springs and Denver are in trouble. As the Colorado Springs Gazette notes, the FrontRange Express, or FREX, was "tossed a lifesaver Thursday after nearly drowning in the flood of city budget cuts."
The Colorado Department of Transportation's State Transportation Commission unanimously... MORE
11:10 am, Dec 3, 2009
There was just enough snow yesterday to make the morning commute a "giant mess," as Fox 31 reported. Contributing to the problem: 20 percent of Denver's roadways are considered congested. But that's not as bad as it sounds---comparatively speaking.
Of 30 U.S. metro areas, the Mile High City is among the least congested, according to a report by... MORE
10:58 am, Nov 30, 2009
If you live in the north metro-Denver area, chances are that you won't benefit from the Regional Transportation District's FasTracks rail program---unless RTD makes drastic changes to approaching the project, according to a new report (via The Denver Post).
The report by BBC Research & Consulting, which was prepared for the North Area... MORE
