“It's not just riders that are really feeling this. It's operators.'
Delays might be more predictable than train arrival times on RTD ’s E and H light rail lines right now, so state regulators and transit advocates have asked the transportation district to be more transparent., an advocacy group focused on providing technical expertise to urban public transit discussions around the city.
“Light rail is supposed to be fast and frequent so to run a train every sixty minutes...it's a joke,” Bamber says.since the pandemic; the organization predicts the loss of rail ridership will outlast these maintenance projects. And while bus ridership is improving right now, rail ridership is not, with the E and H lines both losing over 5 percent of their riders this March compared to March 2023, GDT data analysis shows.
“RTD proactively adopted an enhanced inspection methodology to improve its ability to manage assets and plan for large-scale renewal and reconstruction efforts,” RTD spokesperson Tina Jaquez says. “Trained staff now ride the system twice weekly and walk it every ninety days to take additional measurements and carefully document anomalies found.”
“RTD’s implementation of this final corrective action led to the identification of issues in track conditions along the SE Corridor,” White wrote. “The PUC was not notified of these findings along the SE line nor the issuance of a slow order but rather learned of this development through media inquiries.
By July 3, GDT wants RTD to share when track inspection standards were adopted. The group also asks RTD to clarify how it determines when slow zones are required in the inspection process.
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