Colorado is populated entirely by people who got here from California five minutes ago and can’t wait to turn Colorado into exactly like the place they fled, so I’m sure this will pass by double digits. The last 40 years of Denver public transit debates have been advocates promising robust and financially sound trains full of people and critics who said they were smoking crack and their financial projections were fueled almost entirely by said crack.
If anything, the critics underestimated how bad things would get. Fare revenue for existing lines is $61 million against operating costs of $1.6 BILLION, which is, get this, more. Pandemic era bailout money has been spent, but ridership is still down 40% from 2019 and will never come back.
Empty trains are running around the clock supported by nothing but state and federal taxes and a single masturbating bum who didn’t pay for a ticket. Somehow this is all good for the environment, we are told.
Not satisfied with their success, they’re going to expand.
The RTD girl boss makes a half million a year.
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This November, voters will decide the fate of the Colorado Connector, a proposed transit plan featuring 10 daily round trips between Fort Collins and Denver, and eight between Denver and Pueblo, with an end-to-end travel time of 2 hours and 15 minutes.