I guess some management at RTD doesn't want many riders

[.455_Hunter]

In another lesson that the races on the back of the ballot matter too...

RTD director proposes replacing armed security guards with social workers

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/rtd-director-proposes-replacing-armed-security-guards-with-social-workers


The Regional Transportation District would cancel its contract with Allied Universal Security, whose guards assaulted a Denver artist, under a proposed resolution that seeks to remove most armed officers from trains and transit stations.


I think Shontel Lewis went to the same infant daycare as Tay Anderson, where plastic produce bags were used as crib toys.

The stupid, it hurts...

Hopefully, the other directors are not as gullible as the Denver School Board.

[wyome]

Don't we have a shortage of social workers? I always wanna discuss my feelings with ppl on the RTD...

[Gman]

I guess all rides are going to be free then?

Government giving away our money again?

That sounds fair.

[ray1970]

The first one that harasses me for being inebriated gets tossed at the next stop.

[ChickNorris]

Tosser

[battlemidget]

I used to live in a city and took a subway to/from work daily. The worst are the lines with schools on them. In the fall all the kids come back unsocialized, and every platform is nuts every afternoon. In the morning they are LOUD, like birds at sunup. By the holidays they're better. Then the warm weather comes they all get spring fever and it's almost as bad as the fall.

[Little Dutch]

Do you suppose there will be a lot of social workers volunteering to spend their days riding and policing trains?


Hey man, you're on the Red transit line this month. The last guy was stabbed 32 times before he was raped and had his shoes stolen...But I'm sure the victims who did that to him won't do it again.
https://nbcuniversal.carto.com/u/nbc-chi/builder/275efbf2-7f0a-488a-aa67-45b9213a5c0c/embed?state=%7B%22map%22%3A%7B%22ne%22%3A%5B41.867 11602324348%2C-87.6489043235779%5D%2C%22sw%22%3A%5B41.88183137050 5594%2C-87.60925054550171%5D%2C%22center%22%3A%5B41.874482 10916051%2C-87.6290774345398%5D%2C%22zoom%22%3A16%7D%7D

[BushMasterBoy]

London transport was great in February. I didn't need a car at all. All the trains had internet, even out in the country. They need a train from Pueblo to DIA. Parking and driving sucks here.

[Little Dutch]

London transport was great in February. I didn't need a car at all. All the trains had internet, even out in the country. They need a train from Pueblo to DIA. Parking and driving sucks here.

How many security guards did you see?

[BushMasterBoy]

How many security guards did you see?

Not a single security type person to be seen anywhere. I'm sure I was followed by MI5, but they were very discrete. Once I got to Buckingham Palace, I saw armed police, soldiers, cavalry etc. I thought it was unusual active duty US Air Force stayed on the same floor at the hotel in London. They checked in just after I arrived. But on the trains, subway, buses, no type of security.
Cameras were everywhere. They call it CCTV. Everything has changed since I lived there. I never ever saw armed UK police back in the 70's. All the US bases are fenced off, they used to be fairly open during the Cold War.
I saw so many beautiful women, I didn't want to come back to Colorado. Maybe it was because I was in the high end of the city. There were many expensive exotic cars parked in the neighborhood. It seemed like rich folks from all over the world lived there. It was very crowded and noisy. The price of a small apartment averaged $600,000. I would have to live out in the country with the economy in London the way it is now. I didn't hear of anybody being shot the whole time I was there. There was a shooting of a terrorist in London the week before I got there tho'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Streatham_stabbing

[Duman]

Tosser

Well played....a fan of BBC?

[ben4372]

Funny. I saw an actual transit police Ford Explorer. The guy has a gun and badge. Way more imposing than the security guards in the Dodge Nitro. Either way public transit it a huge money suck.

[Eric P]

London transport was great in February. I didn't need a car at all. All the trains had internet, even out in the country. They need a train from Pueblo to DIA. Parking and driving sucks here.

That is a horrible idea. Rail is dead in Colorado. They cant even break even on bustang. Rail requires fix infrastructure, fixed routes, fixed schedules, skilled engineers. Busses need simple drivers, can go anywhere cars can, schedules can match demand and change on the fly.

Soon, robo busses will be on the roads. Far cheaper and more flexible to utilize bus on shoulder on the interstates and highways we already have.

[AirbornePathogen]

That board member is a wing nut, she's always the one to put forth crazy shit like this.

And the resolution went just where I expected- nowhere. Died in committee at the board meeting, with zero support except from her.

[20X11]

RTD has been systematically cutting service to areas for years. Used to be able to take a bus from SE Aurora to the tech center. Then they stopped going further east than Arapahoe and Parker Road. Other routes have been cut/truncated/schedules reduced. Cost savings? More like revenue reduction. If you have a smaller, less convenient transit system you end up with less revenue. Ancillary trips on the system disappear if you can't serve people near their homes.

[.455_Hunter]

That board member is a wing nut, she's always the one to put forth crazy shit like this.

And the resolution went just where I expected- nowhere. Died in committee at the board meeting, with zero support except from her.

You never know.

I would have thought the concept of removing SROs from Denver Public Schools would died a similar death, but no- approved wholeheartedly.

[JTP80]

With the way the rail system is set up, they might have more riders, but less people paying their fares since enforcement will be heavily affected.

[BladesNBarrels]

I had a vision of a high-speed train like Japan.
Running from Pueblo to Cheyenne.
250 mph with stops in CO Springs, Denver, Ft. Collins, Cheyenne.
Then on TV, I saw the protestors blocking the interstate highway.
It’s a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen…
Oh, the humanity and all the passengers…
End of the dream once again

[ray1970]

I had a vision of a high-speed train like Japan.
Running from Pueblo to Cheyenne.
250 mph with stops in CO Springs, Denver, Ft. Collins, Cheyenne.
Then on TV, I saw the protestors blocking the interstate highway.
It?s a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen?
Oh, the humanity and all the passengers?
End of the dream once again

Heck. I?d just be impressed if they could actually get the light rail in service between Thornton and Denver. It?s taking them forever and a day and that?s only about fifteen miles. At that pace they could probably do Cheyenne to Pueblo by the year 2121.

[BushMasterBoy]

Just get the rail and power from Pueblo. We are getting a new steel mill that makes rail and solar power array. Pollution in Denver chokes me to death. London started their underground trains in 1863...

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/08/mccarthy-to-epc-300-mw-lightsource-bp-project-in-pueblo-colorado/