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[KevinKorell]

 

 

RTD continues to operate at reduced COVID-19 service levels. As a result the C and F lines are currently suspended, and the R Line is not running south of Lincoln Station. To plan your next trip, visit our Trip Planner.

[KevinKorell]

Denver, CO Gazette. 1/5/22:

 

 

    Some Denver bus, light rail services to change on Sunday  

 

 

Some bus and light rail services in the Denver metro area are scheduled to change beginning on Sunday, according to the Regional Transportation District.

 

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[CNJRoss]

Progressive Railroading,  1/7/22

 

COVID-19 surge, labor shortage impact RTD service

 

 

The Regional Transportation District (RTD) of Denver is struggling to provide its regularly scheduled service due to a surge in COVID-19 cases and a shortage of workers.

 

The operations team’s “people power” is being severely affected by the omicron variant as well as the widespread labor shortage in covering open shifts, said General Manager and CEO Debra Johnson said in a press release.

 

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[KevinKorell]

Denver, CO Post, 3/11/22:

 

 

  RTD will add back third cars on light-rail trains after riders protest change  

 

 

Light-rail trains on four Regional Transportation District lines will resume running with three-car sets on weekdays after riders protested a decision to shorten them to two cars this week.

 

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[KevinKorell]

Mass Transit magazine, 6/21/22:

 

 

   Denver RTD introduces changes to enhance revenue vehicle cleaning procedures for bus, light rail  

 

 

The Denver Regional Transportation District's (RTD) Service and Cleaning worked with Bus Operations and Maintenance, Light Rail Operations and Maintenance, and Safety Environmental Compliance to switch to a new cleaning solution for revenue vehicles that aims to be more efficienty than the electrostatic sprayers currently in use. 

 

Here is the article.

[KevinKorell]

KUSA-TV, Channel 9 in Denver, CO, 12/14/22:
 

  RTD permanently ends C and F light rail   

 
 
The Regional Transportation District (RTD) said it will permanently discontinue the C and F light rail lines beginning Sunday, Jan. 8.

 
 
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These were service patterns, not unique lines, so nobody totally loses service.  For those who used these lines before, it will require a change of trains along the trunk line where the Southeast and Southwest routes run together.  I-25/Broadway is the most common transfer location.
 
Cross-posting in its own thread as well as in Coronavirus/RTD since the cuts are at least in part a victim of reduced ridership resulting from the pandemic.