{"id":9408,"date":"2021-07-26T17:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/07\/26\/cheap-or-free-fares-rtd-should-take-urgent-action-to-lure-riders-back-report-says\/135410\/"},"modified":"2021-07-26T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:31:54","slug":"cheap-or-free-fares-rtd-should-take-urgent-action-to-lure-riders-back-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/cheap-or-free-fares-rtd-should-take-urgent-action-to-lure-riders-back-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap or free fares? RTD should take &#8220;urgent&#8221; action to lure riders back, report says."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/cheap-or-free-fares-rtd-should-take-urgent-action-to-lure-riders-back-report-says\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/TDP-L-RTD_COMMUTERS_322x-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cheap-or-free-fares-rtd-should-take-urgent-action-to-lure-riders-back-report-says.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/TDP-L-RTD_COMMUTERS_411X-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cheap-or-free-fares-rtd-should-take-urgent-action-to-lure-riders-back-report-says-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/TDP-L-RTD_COMMUTERS_170x-560x366.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cheap-or-free-fares-rtd-should-take-urgent-action-to-lure-riders-back-report-says-2.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cheap-or-free-fares-rtd-should-take-urgent-action-to-lure-riders-back-report-says-4.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/07\/26\/cheap-or-free-fares-rtd-should-take-urgent-action-to-lure-riders-back-report-says\/135410\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commuters returning to their workplaces as the pandemic eases are clogging Denver-area highways, but they aren\u2019t yet boarding buses and trains in droves.<\/p>\n<p>That emerging dynamic has prompted an outside review panel to call for the Regional Transportation District to act boldly: Use some of its federal relief money to slash regular fares temporarily and streamline its monthly passes to make them easier to get.<\/p>\n<p>The plea underscores that RTD is in a fight to lure riders back against changing work patterns, its own budget constraints and, most of all, time. While RTD leaders point to gradual ridership growth this year as an encouraging sign, the most recent monthly ridership report from May shows 58% fewer riders boarded its buses, trains and other services during that month than in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2021\/07\/26\/rtd-public-transit-ridership-pandemic-denver\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commuters returning to their workplaces as the pandemic eases are clogging Denver-area highways, but they aren\u2019t yet boarding buses and trains in droves. That emerging dynamic has prompted an outside review panel to call for the Regional Transportation District to act boldly: Use some of its federal relief money to slash regular fares temporarily and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5087,7170,2435,854,9,7555,1,3,7721,7508,61,1736],"tags":[5096,7171,2436,3427,7560,7744,7510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}