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The Regional Transportation District, or commonly RTD, was organized in 1969 and is the regional authority operating public transit services in eight of the twelve counties in the Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area in Colorado. It operates over a area, serving 2.87 million people. RTD is governed by a 15-member, publicly elected Board of Directors. Directors are elected to a four-year term and represent a specific district of about 180,000 constituents.〔 RTD currently operates a bus and light rail system that has a service area of . It employed 2,664 people and reported 105 million boardings in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rtd-denver.com/factsAndFigures.shtml )〕 It had a $460.2 million operating for the year of 2014. Google has RTD schedules attached to its trip planner, and 3rd party mobile applications are now available for the iPhone and other platforms. RTD is constructing the voter-approved FasTracks rapid transit expansion that will add of new commuter rail and light rail, of bus rapid transit service, 21,000 new parking spaces at rail and bus stations, and enhance bus service across the eight-county district. == Timeline == * Pre-RTD: The principal provider of public transportation was the Denver Tramway Company, which served the City and County of Denver as well as older portions of Arvada, Aurora, Englewood, Golden, Lakewood, Westminster, and Wheat Ridge and smaller suburbs. * 1969: RTD was created in the 47th session of the Colorado General Assembly to provide public transportation to five additional counties in the metropolitan area. * 1969–1971: The Denver Tramway Company continues service under sponsorship of the City and County of Denver. * October 1970: RTD found it needed to establish a Northern Operations Group (NOG) to provide service to Boulder and Longmont. RTD acquired the privately owned ''Denver-Boulder Bus Company'', which also ran airport buses. * 1971: Denver Metro Transit took over the privately owned Denver Tramway Company. Denver Metro Transit was an entity created by the City and County of Denver. Suburban service only continued for those suburbs willing to contribute a subsidy. * 1972: RTD created a plan for a personal rapid transit (PRT) system in the area, and a transportation plan was completed—three years after the 1969 legislative mandate. This plan included of PRT and extensive bus service throughout the areas served by RTD. Later that year, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) selected RTD to develop PRT as a demonstration project. * 1973: Residents voted for a sales tax of 1/2% over the six counties served by RTD for ten years; 20% of the funds would be used for expanded bus service and the other 80% were earmarked for PRT construction. The PRT project was eventually scrapped. * July 1974: Denver Metro Transit became part of RTD. * 1975–1977: RTD consolidated and expanded and improved service frequency. Service was expanded to routes that commercial carriers previously operated. * February 1978: Inflation caused RTD to implement a new fare structure. * September 5, 1978: RTD completely replaced all bus routes, formerly mostly radial from downtown Denver following old streetcar routes, with new routes based on a grid system, and numbered based on the hundred blocks of the street grid. For instances, the new Colorado Blvd (4000 east block) route was number 40, and the new 10th Avenue (1000 north block) route was number 10. * 1979: Federal approval was prepared for the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver, originally known as Transitway. The project allowed express bus productivity to double and was eventually intersected by RTD's first light rail line, the D Line, at Stout and California streets. * 1980: RTD reached a record number of weekday passengers, expanded the park-'n'-Ride system. It also acquired 216 new buses, 89 of which were articulated. Construction began on the 16th Street Mall. Work was also completed to make RTD's service more accessible to elderly and handicapped people. * September 1994: Downtown Express/High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes were opened to buses, and to carpools a year later. * October 1994: RTD opened the Central Corridor light rail line, bringing rail transit back to the region. * 2000: The Southwest Corridor light rail line opened. * 2002: The Central Platte Valley spur of RTD's light rail service opened. * 2003: The downtown portion of the original line between Speer Boulevard and 14th Street was realigned as a result of construction of the Colorado Convention Center. * April 2006: Unionized transit workers of the Amalgamated Transit Union went on strike for the first time in 24 years, citing increased health care costs, mandatory overtime, and disproportionate wage increases relative to upper management. Workers walked off the morning of April 3, shutting down the light rail system and decreasing bus service to about 45% of its normal routes, the remaining service being provided by existing RTD subcontractors Laidlaw, Connex, and First Transit. Laidlaw and Connex, whose workers are contracted rather than unionized, would take over many routes operated by RTD, albeit on a reduced schedule, while First Transit, whose workers are unionized, operated only its own routes due to its contract with its workers. A revised contract was approved by the union on April 7, and service resumed on April 10. The strike lasted a total of seven days, and although thousands of commuters were stranded by the strike, only a few backups were reported as customers made makeshift arrangements for commuting or waited out the strike. * November 17, 2006: The Southeast Corridor, a component of the T-REX transportation project, opened. * April 26, 2013: The West Rail Line of the light rail opened. * May 11 and 12, 2014: RTD's Market Street Station closed and was replaced by the newer Union Station.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Market Street Station Closed )〕 The Free MetroRide service began along 18th and 19th streets between Union Station and Civic Center Station.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Denver's Union Station now open with free MetroRide service to Civic Center Station )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Regional Transportation District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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