There’s a renewed effort to attract riders to RTD in a way that would save riders money while also working to save the environment, but there are serious questions about whether a new state-funded plan will make a dent in traffic and ozone issues at all.
“I think it’s fantastic,” said Holly Griffin, a regular rider.“I used to take it a lot when I was going down to Rockies games, but once the pandemic hit, I dropped my season tickets and stopped riding,” said Andy Lyford, another rider.
“I go to work at 2 o’clock, and I get off at 10:38 p.m., and it’s really bad down here. It’s dangerous,” said Donna Simon, who is a frequent rider, though mostly out of necessity because she doesn’t own a car.“They need to have them on the trains constantly,” Simon said. “There are people just fighting out here, cursing, some of them walking around half-dressed. There’s crack use, all that stuff. It’s very unsafe and uncomfortable.
“It’s a health concern for everyone, for you and me, but particularly for small children, for the elderly, for people with respiratory illness,” Gomez said. “You can’t force people onto public transportation,” said Darin Duber-Smith, senior economics and marketing lecturer at Metropolitan State University of Denver. “We’ve been trying it for decades and decades and decades.”“Well, the same reason most everybody quit — the ridership,” Duber-Smith said. “When they were losing ridership, what they did was very bad marketing, which is raised prices. So, you’re paying a ton of money, it’s not comfortable during rush hour.
Duber-Smith said mass transit isn’t like cell phone service or even ride share services where there’s ample competition to keep rates competitive and fair. He said mass transit only works well in other cities because the government funds it.
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