Construction Projects and Studies

RTD logo This is a list of several facts and figures of plans the RTD has or is currently working on. This list includes:

Denver ranks among the nation's most livable cities, but is also the seventh most congested city in the country. In addition, in the next 20 years more than one million people will move to the Denver metro area. Our existing transportation system simply cannot handle this population boom.

RTD completed the Longmont Diagonal Rail Environmental Evaluation (EE) in August 2006. The environmental and engineering analysis performed during the Longmont EE process is being merged with the rail elements of the US 36 Environmental Impact Statement and carried forward as a single project – the Northwest Rail Environmental Assessment

Service Development is responsible for planning, scheduling, driver assignments, and service monitoring, service performance evaluation and implementation coordination of all RTD services.

The main goal of the Downtown Multimodal Access Plan (DMAP) is a detailed, integrated plan for vehicular, freight, pedestrian, bicycle and transit access into and throughout Downtown Denver over the next 20 to 25 years. The study is scheduled for completion by the end of June 2004, with the plan approval process scheduled for July and August 2004.

Denver is a city on the move. It is growing and changing. So, it is critical to this city's successful future that Union Station change with the times too. Developing the Master Plan for Union Station is the first step of that process. Check out this website for the latest information on the Master Plan for Union Station. Union Station is served by the new C Line and the FREE Mall Shuttle.

A Major Investment Study - or MIS- is a process to identify transportation problems and needs in a major transportation corridor and to identify and evaluate potential alternative solution to overcoming those problems or meeting those needs.

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is an initiative taken by RTD to build transit ridership, while discouraging sprawl, improving air quality and helping to coordinate a new type of community for Denver residents. TODs are compact, mixed-use developments situated at or around transit stops. Sometimes referred to as Transit Oriented Communities, or Transit Villages.

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