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Originally Posted by The Dirt
Ah yes, a baseball game is very important to me. Bebe mind the fact that he wants his choo choo to Boulder so much that he's willing to take RTD down and leave the most at risk people without viable transportation options. Fuck him and his tech bro money.
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Sorry, but until RTD actually starts doing more to serve those at risk people instead of cutting, cutting, cutting local bus routes the criticism over RTD rings true. This in spite of Polis' misdirected criticism of the Boulder choo-choo. That we're still years out from a restructuring of RTD's service to focus on those routes that you are talking about (urban/local routes with higher ridership) shows that RTD has done very little to change. Granted the pandemic was a major setback, but it could also have served as natural disruption point to follow forward on this. Routes that showed a strong baseline ridership in the pandemic should have had their frequencies increased over pre-pandemic levels while other routes remained chopped. Instead we get the RTD Board acting faux woke and trying to replace security guards with mental health workers as their biggest focus.
RTD could also work on controlling the tweakers and shit-bags who have made the bus terminals pretty unsavory. Public perception means a lot and RTD is failing hard right now at presenting an attractive transportation mode.