The Regional Transportation District (RTD) is easy to overlook when it comes to elections for the fifteen board director positions. The non-partisan seats don’t draw attention a large part of the time and the fury over past unfinished promises has diminished. It’s unfortunate that voters aren’t more interested in RTD since it’s ranked the fourth largest government in Colorado, with a budget that rivals that of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). The difference is that RTD provides bus and train service for maybe 3% of the population while CDOT pretty solidly serves the transportation needs of 100%.
RTD encompasses all of Boulder, Broomfield, Denver and Jefferson counties, as well as a portion of Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas and Weld. The transit agency is funded with its own 1 percent sales tax within its jurisdiction, which includes nearly 3 million metro-area residents.
See the full article by Natalie Menten, August 2, 2022