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Red light firm may owe Denver some green

January 16, 2009

The company that runs Denver's red light ticket cameras may owe the city at least $27,900 under a clause awarding $25 every time it misses a batch of red-light runners.

RTD eyeing big cuts to trim 2009 budget

January 13, 2009

RTD has proposed elimination of 15 bus routes, cutbacks to 29 others and cancellation of a light-rail line to trim $4.8 million from its 2009 budget, which needs to be reduced an estimated $27 million.

FasTracks project in a pickle

January 13, 2009

The deepening recession is proving a double-edged sword for RTD's FasTracks project.

Good news: FasTracks costs headed down

January 12, 2009

Bad news: RTD's ability to pay for it gets worse

RTD imposes staff pay freeze

January 9, 2009

RTD slapped a salary freeze on its staff and will propose a 5 percent cut in bus and light-rail service after the sales tax report for November, received this week, showed a record 9.6 percent drop in revenues over last year.

New RTD trustees have hands full

January 6, 2009

Five new RTD board members - a third of the total - were sworn in Tuesday night then thrown into a baptism by immersion on the billions of dollars of impending transit agency decisions.

Red-light camera contract with city ends next month

January 6, 2009

Redflex, the Arizona company that runs Denver's four red-light ticket cameras, delivered hundreds of pages of documents to Denver police on Monday on how it's been operating the program for the past six months.

Do Denver red-light cameras deter violations?

January 4, 2009

Denver has failed to enforce its red-light camera contract, collecting the $75 fines but not collecting the data necessary to determine whether the program is reducing red-light running.

I-25 Express lane tolls going up

December 26, 2008

CDOT is raising the toll on the I-25 Express lanes by a quarter, to $3.50, during the peak rush hour but not because demand is up.

FasTracks station location sparks fear about crime

December 19, 2008

They're short $3 million, but some residents of the economically stressed Sun Valley community in Denver are still pressing RTD and the city to move the FasTracks West Corridor station at Federal Boulevard.

Rail agency studies ideas for routes to cross state

December 16, 2008

The Rocky Mountain Rail Authority's push to develop a high- speed intercity train network across Colorado will study spurs to Aspen, Steamboat Springs and Breckenridge but has eliminated a branch to Winter Park as too costly.

Motorcyclists busted for fleeing at 130 mph on I-25

December 15, 2008

A motorcycle got a trooper's attention by speeding past at well over 100 mph. Turns out the rider wasn't alone.

North metro area to press RTD

December 12, 2008

Meeting in Thornton City Hall on Thursday night, about 60 people from Adams, Broomfield and Weld counties organized the North Area Transportation Alliance to pressure RTD for changes to the overbudget transit expansion program.

Light-rail sweeps find fare cheaters

December 10, 2008

RTD's highest concentrations of light-rail fare scofflaws use the stations along Welton Street through Five Points and the 10th and Osage Station in Lincoln Park, although the systemwide rate of nonpayment remains slightly more than 2 percent.

Bridges over Wadsworth Bypass link two parts of Arvada

December 8, 2008

East met west in Arvada again Monday morning after 50 years of separation across the busy Wadsworth Bypass.

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Denver Traffic Alerts

  • Slow traffic, on PEPSI CTR at PEPSI CTR
    HOCKEY GAME; THE AVS PLAY THE OILERS TONIGHT AT 7.EXPECT TRAFFIC DELAYS ON I 25 IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA BEFORE AND AFTER THE GAME; ACCESS THE LOTS FROM AURARIA PARKWAY OR SPEER BLVD; IS OPEN AT 5.
  • Lane closed, on I-25 NB at PARK AVE
    ACCIDENT; RIGHT LANE CLOSED; STAY LEFT.
  • Lane closed, on NATIONAL WESTERN COMPLEX at NATIONAL WESTERN COMPLEX
    THEATER; RIGHT LANES CLOSED; THE NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOWS RUNS FROM THE 10TH THROUGH THE 25TH.EXPECT SLOWDOWNS AROUND THE COLISEUM AND ALONG I 70; I 25 NEAR 58TH AVENUE WILL BE A BIT SLOW FOR TRAFFIC ENTERING AND EXITING THE NORTH PARKING AREA.

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