Articles about Transportation
The N Line adds even more commuter rail service to connect the metro Denver region. The first 13 miles of the proposed 18.5-mile line provides service from Union Station through Denver, Commerce City, Northglenn, Thornton, and eventually North Adams County. The remaining 5.5 miles will provide service to SH 7/162nd Avenue Station. Read more
The survey is available in English and Spanish and is open now through October 18. Read more
The pandemic has strained already short-staffed caregiving services, leaving seniors in southwest Colorado without much of the support they need to survive. Read more
Location: Microsoft Teams Meeting (virtual)
Meets every month 2:00pm-4:00pm. Even months in Longmont. Odd months in Boulder.
Mission – Overcome transportation gaps in the community, Multi-modal education
Menti questions-Which populations does your organization serve in Boulder and surrounding areas?
- Boulder LCC Priorities
- Understand Medicaid transportation better
- Ride Free Longmont and now Ride Free Lafayette
- Address gaps in transportation in Boulder outside of RTD coverage
- Larimer/Weld counties priorities -Assess the 2017 Coordinated Human Services Transportation (CHST) plans while building the new CHST plan. Mobility committees have been helping to identify the gaps. Always looking for outside involvement. Don’t want to become insular
Have been tracking trips within Boulder and between counties with the following findings:
- There are a lot of trips coming from Longmont
- Highlighted how much traffic is cross jurisdictional
- Regions are growing together
- NFRMPO = North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization. Larimer did a study of mobility for older adults.
- One of the programmatic suggestions after this study resulted in the One Call One Click programThey then worked with a consulting firm to implement it
- A mobility manager is now hired for the program
- People are looking forward to Closing the transportation gaps and consolidating tasks into one app
- Other updates
Via Mobility Services
- There is a second vehicle running in the Larimer & Weld counties part time
- Because of this the denial rate went from 21% to >1%
- The are able to make deviated routes in the Estes Park area
- Running time is 8-2 and they have the ability to bring people down to Longmont
- Right now Frederick is not involved
Flex Express
- Making coordination efforts cross jurisdictionally –
Involved now: Boulder, Ft. Collins, Longmont, Berthoud
- Main place of operation is Fort Collins and other towns help pay for the service. C0-funded service
- So far this has been very successful – people want more trips
Poudre Express
- Making coordination efforts cross jurisdictionally
- Involved now- Greeley, Ft. Collins, Windsor
- Another co-funded service
- Trips include-Ft. Collins to UNC, Greeley to CSU, Connections to Flex Express, Bustang, Arrow Express
Mobility for all
- This is the 1st time Boulder is doing a Coordinated Human Services Plan
- Want to give more focus to youth transportation
- Looking into diverse funding options
- NEXT MEETING
- Monday 10/12/2020
- Location: virtual (Microsoft Teams)
- Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
The Via Monday Morning Cup met via Zoom from 10am-11am. The meeting started with introductions of attendees. Ashley Doty, Program Manager at DRMAC, gave a presentation on DRMAC’s Getting There App for the group. She gave an overview of the app and the app design. Then she gave an overview of how the app works and the additional menu page. The group had a couple questions about additional languages besides the four in the future and app use for people with visual impairments. Via also gave an update on ridership; they are currently picking up the rides for SRC riders and new riders can call in starting the week before Oct 1st to start scheduling rides. Meeting recording available on Via Mobility Services Youtube page.