Denver Moves Transit

About the Denver Moves: Transit Plan

As Denver continues to grow, we must provide more reliable and safe mobility options to move more people where they need to go, and improve connections to key destinations and between neighborhoods. Denver Moves: Transit is Denver’s citywide transit plan creating a local transit vision and guiding framework that calls for improving the quality of transit options in our city – making transit more reliable, more frequent, and more convenient for daily use.

Throughout 2021, the project team is developing implementation scenarios for the Denver Moves: Transit vision in close coordination with a community Task Force and a Technical Working Group. Draft implementation scenarios will be available for initial public review during late Summer/Early Fall 2021.

 

  • Recommends investments in key corridors in Denver that will result in high-quality and reliable transit.
  • Recommends  a network of frequent transit service corridors, to provide service that arrives more often, all day, every day.
  • Identifies improvements in pedestrian and bike infrastructure and amenities to make it easier and safer for people walking and biking to get to transit.
  • Promotes transit-supportive land use  and developments and instills a “sense of place” at transit stations and stops in Denver.
  • Recommends continued support for affordable fare programs fare payment technology to make transit more affordable easier to use, and programs that promote and encourage the use of transit.

Denver Moves Transit Phase 2

Throughout 2021, the project team is developing implementation scenarios for the Denver Moves: Transit vision in close coordination with a community Task Force and a Technical Working Group. Draft implementation scenarios will be available for initial public review during late Summer/Early Fall 2021.

Task Force Documents

Meeting #4: November 10, 2021

Meeting #3: September 8, 2021

Meeting #2: June 9, 2021

Meeting #1: April 15, 2021

Presentation materials can be made available upon request.

Task Force Members

  • Councilman Kevin Flynn (District 2)
  • Councilwoman Robin Kniech (At-Large)
  • Stuart Anderson (Transportation Solutions)
  • Carrie Atiyeh (Visit Denver)
  • Brian Carroll (Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Committee)
  • Oliver Giminaro (Denver Commission for People with Disabilities)
  • Mayra Gonzales (Montbello Organizing Committee)
  • April Hansen (Denver Women's Commission)
  • Yussuf Hassan (Denver Immigrant and Refugee Commission)
  • John Hayden (Mayor’s Pedestrian Advisory Committee)
  • Andrew Iltis (Downtown Denver Partnership)
  • Amy Kenreich (President, West Wash Park Neighborhood Association)
  • Shontel Lewis (RTD Board of Directors, District B)
  • Jill Locantore (Denver Streets Partnership)
  • Sheryl Machado (Denver South TMA)
  • Angie Rivera Malpiede (NE Transportation Connections, RTD Board of Directors Chair, District C)
  • Susan Maxfield (Denver Commission on Aging)
  • Carl Meese (Auraria Campus Planning and Development)
  • Joel Noble (Chair – INC Transportation Committee)
  • Virginia Santy (Denver Women’s Commission)
  • Kacie Warner (Athmar Park Active Living)
  • Kate Williams (DRMAC, RTD Board of Directors – District A)
  • Deya Zavala (Mile High Connects, RTD Accountability Committee)

Transit Program Evolution

Denver Moves: Transit establishes the City’s vision and goals for its transit system, along with guiding framework to improve the quality of transit options in our city. The following maps show Denver’s transit network and the planned evolution over time.

Transit Projects Map

Phase 1: Archive

The goals for Denver Moves: transit were developed using feedback from the community, stakeholders, and Task Force. More than 75% of survey respondents feel that these goals capture what they hope the plan will accomplish.

Review the Summary of Community Feedback and Plan Revisions Highlights(PDF, 152KB) to learn about the public feedback we received and what changed from the first draft of Denver Moves: Transit to the current version.

Appendices and Attachments

Appendix A: Glossary(PDF, 238KB)

Appendix B: State of System Report (2017)(PDF, 73MB)

Appendix C: Community Outreach(PDF, 9MB)

Appendix D: Transit-Friendly Streets Guide(PDF, 25MB)

Appendix E: Corridor Evaluation Process (July 2018)(PDF, 22MB)