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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;line-break:after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Gary <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Can can't open the attachments t his format. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Can you send the the attachments in word? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>have a great weekend. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Joe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Colorado-Talk [mailto:colorado-talk-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gary Van Dorn via Colorado-Talk<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 05, 2019 8:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> Sabndy Schleich via Colorado-Talk<br><b>Cc:</b> Gary Van Dorn<br><b>Subject:</b> [Colorado-Talk] New Denver focus on transportation heading to voters in November<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:14.55pt'><span style='font-size:23.5pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>New Denver focus on transportation heading to voters in November<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h2 style='margin-top:0in;mso-line-height-alt:15.25pt;color:rgba(27, 27, 27, 0.65098);max-width: 100%'><span style='font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";font-weight:normal'>New name but no new money for city department<o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style='margin-bottom:17.4pt;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'><a href="https://www.denverpost.com/author/andrew-kenney/" title="Posts by Andrew Kenney"><b><span style='text-decoration:none'>Andrew Kenney</span></b></a>June 25, 2019 at 12:46 am<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/TDP-L-Electric-buses-RJS-2126.jpg?w=501"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-top:4.8pt;margin-bottom:4.8pt;max-width: 100%'><p class=MsoNormal>RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Electric buses move pedestrians down the the 16th Street Mall in Denver on May 13, 2019. RTD pays nearly twice as much per mile to power its electric buses as it does its conventional diesel fleet. The price disparity could slow the transit agency’s embrace of zero-emission technology at a time when air quality and climate change have become ever larger topics of conversation in Colorado. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>Denver residents will decide Nov. 5 whether to create a city transportation department.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>It’s a bureaucratic change, but it signals a bigger shift: The city may take on more responsibility for bus and train service amid a new urban era.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>The Denver City Council on Monday decided to put the measure on voters’ ballots.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>If approved by voters, it would turn the existing Department of Public Works into the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>“What we’ve been working on is essentially a culture shift, and it’s a pivot toward a new mentality and philosophy,” said public works director Eulois Cleckley.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>Currently, the public works department handles transportation projects for the city, including the upcoming bus-rapid transit project for East Colfax Avenue, as well as sewer and trash service.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><strong><i><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>RELATED:</span></i></strong><i><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'> <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/24/denver-parks-spending-plan/"><span style='color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>Here’s where Denver will spend $41M in new parks money</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>The new department will keep all those responsibilities, but the reorganization would show a “commitment to expanding mobility options and improving existing transportation infrastructure” and focus more on transportation. Previously, <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/02/denver-department-transportation-infrastructure-november-ballot/"><span style='color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>the city considered creating a standalone transportation department</span></a>, but officials decided that would be inefficient.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>The practical parts of the reorganization are already finished, a city spokesperson said. That includes, for example, the creation of a new planning division.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>The vote would not bring any new money or new hires for transportation. But the transformation refocuses the existing staff. Previously, the city had about 127 people working on transportation, but now it has 1,100 employees — the bulk of the existing Department of Public Works — “that are focused on transportation and mobility,” Cleckley said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>Mayor Michael Hancock has outlined <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/10/michael-hancock-denver-mobility-action-plan/"><span style='color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>up to $2 billion in proposed transportation spending,</span></a> but hasn’t identified sources for all of that money.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>The recent <a href="https://www.denvergov.org/content/denvergov/en/elevate-denver.html"><span style='color:#416ED2;text-decoration:none'>“Elevate Denver”</span></a> debt package includes about $431 million for transportation and mobility projects, including $55 million for the bus-rapid transit on East Colfax. But the city would need much more to fulfill its long-term plans, which include transit lines up and down the major corridors and better connections within the city.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>Most transit in the metro area is handled by RTD — the Regional Transportation District. Its landmark project over recent years was FasTracks, a set of rail lines that largely converge from the suburbs into Denver’s city center. Continued rail construction helped to grow rail ridership by about 3.5 percent in 2018 — but, at the same time, bus ridership fell by about 3 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;max-width: 100%;caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27)'><span style='font-family:"-apple-system-font","serif";color:#1B1B1B'>The city’s new department could supplement RTD’s service in a couple ways, including by building the physical infrastructure for bus-rapid transit and by paying for additional RTD service in the city.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>