Traffic : The Rocky Mountain News

Governments, firms shave costs for RTD passes

Southeast metro businesses and governments are subsidizing the cost of monthly RTD transit passes so that workers in the corridor straddling Interstate 25 can cut their commuting costs.

Software glitches strand RTD's access-a-Ride users

Robert Weinberg spent much of his life looking through his camera lens.

RTD to roll out revised cost on FasTracks lines

RTD told a legislative committee that it has found little support among local communities for shortening its over-budget FasTracks lines or extending their completion schedules in the face of its inability to deliver the program as promised.

In his own words: George O'Brien

Access-a-Ride patron George O'Brien relies on a wheelchair because of nerve damage in his lower back.

Buckling concrete snarls Parker Road

All lanes of northbound Parker Road between Progress and Belleview are now open following roadway repairs.

Colorado puts brakes on license plate abbreviations

LOL!! The growth of text messaging abbreviations is adding to the list of prohibited letter combinations on Colorado license plates.

RTD Q&A

With RTD set to phase in paid parking at 39 selected park-n-Ride lots early next year, you may be surprised to know that it might not affect you at all.

Voters could be asked to kill FasTracks

Voters could see another FasTracks measure on the ballot a year or two down the road, but it might be a move to kill the overbudget transit program rather than a tax hike to bail it out.

RTD parking plan

Proposed list of pay lots

Washington Street closed for work near Adams County border

Morning commuters will have to avoid a road closure on north Washington Street near the Denver-Adams County border.

Mayors stand ground against FasTracks cuts

Metro-area mayors say they will oppose any talk by RTD of cutting back on their FasTracks corridors in the midst of a budget crisis.

FasTracks budget off rails

RTD conceded Friday that it cannot deliver the FasTracks program as promised to voters four years ago.

ExpressToll will charge $7 to verify account holders

EXpressToll, the automated toll-collecting system on E-470, Northwest Parkway and I-25 Express Lanes, will start charging account holders $7 when clerks have to reconcile a violation.

Inflation forcing RTD's West line to go bare bones

The meat and potatoes of the West Corridor light rail project - moving dirt, laying track and building bridges, tunnels and walls - has contributed the most to a 38 percent jump in price since voters approved FasTracks four years ago.