Longmont and Denver transit users are frustrated that RTD’s $5.5 billion FasTracks plan hasn’t delivered a commuter rail for northwest metro communities or reliable bus service near the city center.
More than a dozen residents chimed in after seeing the findings of the 2025 FastTracks report during the RTD Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday, October 28, with most of them wondering why they’ve been paying taxes for twenty years for rail and bus lines that still don’t serve them.
Largely a bus and rail expansion plan for RTD, FasTracks is the main public transportation provider for the Denver and Boulder metro region. Voters in RTD’s service area approved FasTracks in 2003, agreeing to a 0.4 percent sales and use tax to fund it. The plan has also relied on federal funding, including more than $2 billion in grants from the Federal Transit Administration…