American Public Transportation Association Honors
Top Public Transportation Leaders and Public Transit Systems
October 2008
Top Public Transportation Leaders and Public Transit Systems
October 2008
Transportation District, Denver, CO (Category: Providing more than 30 million annual passenger trips.) This is the third time RTD has won this prestigious award and the second time in only five years. RTD’s 2,300 employees provide service in a 2,400-square-mile area operating nearly 100 million passenger trips annually on a variety of services including bus, light rail, demand response and vanpools. RTD has been breaking ridership records year after year, demonstrating what a dynamic and vital link RTD provides for the communities it serves. For example, RTD has today already surpassed light rail ridership projections for the year 2020. RTD’s service provided exceptionally high on-time performance levels last year, with light rail hitting an on-time rate of 99.96 percent, ADA paratransit service at 96 percent, local bus service at 88 percent, and express and regional bus service at 92 percent. Two years ago, RTD opened the light rail portion of the $1.7 billion Transportation Expansion or T-REX project, combining light rail construction and highway expansion. The project was jointly managed by RTD, the Colorado Department of Transportation, the Federal Transit Administration and Federal Highway Administration. The new light rail line began service on in November 2006 — two years ahead of schedule and within budget. This was RTD’s fourth consecutive light rail project built on time and within budget.
