(RTD is in the process of planning a similar, though less expensive, commuter rail that would stop in Boulder.) Much of that taxpayer money was used to pay for buses like the FF1 and FF2. Voters in 2004 approved a sales tax to pay for a commuter rail from Denver to Longmont, known as FasTracks, that RTD never built. RTD’s cuts to bus routes during the pandemic rekindled longstanding frustrations over transit services in the area. The RTD board of directors must approve the service changes. With the end of the ski season, RTD is also proposing to stop the ND in downtown Nederland, rather than going all the way to the Eldora ski area. to help workers arrive on campus by 8 a.m., according to RTD.Īs part of a “seasonal adjustment,” the agency wants to reduce services for the 225, DASH and JUMP to Lafayette, and the SKIP up and down Broadway. RTD is also proposing to add a FF5 bus from Downtown Boulder Station to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. on weekdays. The bus would leave Union Station for Boulder at 7:45 a.m., 4:45 p.m.

The proposal would add two morning and one afternoon FF2 trips, leaving Downtown Boulder Station at 7:07 a.m., 7:37 a.m. The proposed service changes are partially a response to high demand, according to RTD, as the FF1 “regularly” exceeds max capacity during morning and evening commuting times.

“This peak period service is a good start as RTD is able to hire more operators and other workers.” “I hear more requests for the FF2 than for any other bus,” Lynn Guissinger, the chair of RTD’s board or directors who also represents a service area that includes the City of Boulder, wrote in an email to Boulder Reporting Lab.

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