Tag: Federal Transit Administration
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Colfax Bus Rapid Transit project groundbreaking ceremony on Friday
The project has prompted worry among residents and business owners up and down Denver’s iconic avenue.
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RTD’s Colfax Avenue BRT project gets $23M in federal funding
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Regional Transportation District’s re-imagining of Colfax Avenue — sometimes called the longest commercial road in America and home to the city’s busiest bus route — is $23 million closer to becoming a reality. Colfax will soon be home to a new bus rapid transit line (BRT),…
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Colfax may see radical redesign with bus rapid transit line
Colfax Avenue is the longest commercial road in America. At just over 50 miles in total length, Denver’s original main street stretches from the base of the Rocky Mountains in Golden to the Great Plains of Strasburg. It is an arterial road in every sense of the word. Denver, Aurora, the Regional Transportation District (RTD)…
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Rural green transit projects win $51 million in federal funds
Six Colorado transit agencies will receive $51 million in grants from the Federal Transit Administration to decarbonize mass transit systems, including $34.8 million for a new bus depot for charging electric buses in Summit County. The grants are the largest ever in Colorado for eco-transit systems. “We are pleased to see the federal government investing in…
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RTD to receive over $200 million from latest COVID relief package
RTD is expecting to receive $203,367,528 in federal funding from a recent COVID-19 relief package, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced. This funding is from the 2021 Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act signed by former President Donald Trump in late December. The package includes $14 billion in support of U.S. public transit systems.…