Final May 2023 Service Changes

On May 28, RTD implemented the Final May Service Changes to increase reliability, improve on-time performance, address changing travel needs, and support the agency’s System Optimization Plan. Please view the below details to understand how your trip may be impacted.

These service changes took effect on May 28, 2023.

Routes Effected

Local/Limited Bus Routes

0, 3L, 10, 11, 12, 20, 28, 30, 32, 34, 38, 43, 51, 65, 73, 83D/83L, 133, 169, 169L, 225, 228, DASH, JUMP, SKIP, FlexRide

Regional Bus Routes

BOLT, FF2, FF5, NB

Rail

D, E, H, N, R, W

Final Changes for Local/Limited Bus Routes

Route 0 | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to alleviate running-time performance.

Route 3L | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to improve on-time performance.

Route 10| MODIFIED

RTD will expand service east into Aurora per the System Optimization Plan (SOP). To ensure compliance with the ATU 1001 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the SOP recommendation will be modified by extending the route to Colfax and Billings via East 11th Avenue and Peoria Street, with headways of 60 minutes.

All westbound buses will terminate at Denver Union Station.

Route will no longer serve the Colfax and Federal Transfer Center or Children’s Museum due to lack of ridership, while existing headways will be maintained between Denver Union Station and 9th and Clermont.

These service changes aim to increase ridership by improving transit access and connectivity to major activity and employment centers in Denver and Aurora, and provide greater benefit to Title VI populations who are more likely to rely on RTD services. This addresses ongoing customer requests for Route 10 service to return east of Clermont and is warranted based on the ridership demand on parallel Routes 6, 15, 15L and 121.

Customers who previously utilized service west of Denver Union Station will be impacted. However, that segment of the route was discontinued with the COVID-19 Service Changes in 2020 and previously accounted for less than 5% of Route 10 ridership.

Route 11 | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustments will be made to suspend school-tripper service over the summer.

Route 12 | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to improve on-time performance.

Route 20 | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustments will be made to improve on-time performance, and school-tripper service will be suspended over the summer.

Route 28 | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to ensure CBA compliance.

Route 30 | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustments will be made to suspend school-tripper service over the summer.

Route 32 | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to ensure CBA compliance.

Route 34 | MODIFIED

RTD will extend Route 38 east to connect to Route 34 at the 30th•Downing Station to achieve further compliance with the ATU 1001 CBA. Route 34 will be merged into Route 38, and the extra recovery time currently available on Route 34 will accommodate the additional running time necessary to merge the two routes.

Eastbound routing will continue on Stout St from 17th St until 32nd St, at which point vehicles will turn right on Downing, right on California, where buses will enter the station.

Westbound routing will leave the station on California and follow that until standard routing is resumed with the turn on 15th Street.

Stops #19044 and #10945 will be discontinued.

The new combined route will be named Route 38: 38th Ave.

Route 38 | MODIFIED

RTD will extend Route 38 east to connect to Route 34 at the 30th•Downing Station to achieve further compliance with the ATU 1001 CBA.

Route 34 will be merged into Route 38, with the extra recovery time currently available on Route 34 accommodating the additional running time necessary to merge the two routes.

Eastbound routing will continue on Stout from 17th St until 32nd St, at which point vehicles will turn right on Downing, right on California, where they will enter the station.

Westbound routing will leave the station on California and follow that until standard routing is resumed with the turn on 15th Street.

Stops #19044 and #10945 will be discontinued.

The new combined route will be named Route 38: 38th Ave.

Route 43 | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to improve operational performance.

Route 51 | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustments will be made to suspend school-tripper service over the summer.

Route 65 | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustments will be made to suspend school-tripper service over the summer.

Route 73 | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustments will be made to suspend school-tripper service over the summer.

Route 83D/83L | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to improve on-time performance.

Route 133 | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to improve operator respite time.

Route 169 | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to improve on-time performance.

Route 169L | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to improve on-time performance.

Route 225 | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustments will reduce weekday service frequency over the summer.

Route 228 | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to account for recent route extensions to Forest Park/Arapahoe and Diamond Circle/Aspen Ridge.

Route adjustments will also be made to allow for a more direct route along S Boulder Road.

Route DASH | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustments will reduce weekday service frequency during summer.

Route JUMP | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustments will reduce weekday service frequency during summer.

Route SKIP | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustments will reduce weekday service frequency during summer.

Route FlexRide | MODIFIED

A new FlexRide service area will begin operating in North Broomfield on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. to provide transportation alternatives to those impacted by changes to Route 128.

The new service area will go as far north as Lowell, as far south as 136th Ave, as far east as Washington Street, and as far west as US 287.

Final Changes for Regional Bus Routes

Route BOLT

Schedule adjustments will be made to improve on-time performance.

Route FF2 | REINSTATED

RTD will reinstate Route FF2 and operate three eastbound trips at 7:07 a.m., 7:37 a.m., and 4:15 p.m. from Downtown Boulder Station to address demand during the peaks.

Three westbound trips will operate at 7:45 a.m., 4:45 p.m., and 5:20 p.m. from Union Station to address demand during the peaks.

Route FF5 | MODIFIED

RTD will add a 6:30 a.m. eastbound trip from Downtown Boulder Station to Anschutz Campus to address the demand for an 8 a.m. shift start time.

RTD will shift the current 7:30 a.m. westbound trip from Anschutz Campus to Downtown Boulder Station to a 7:50 a.m. departure time to increase operational Adjusting this trip time would improve service connections into Boulder/CU for 9 a.m. class start times.

Route NB | MODIFIED

Seasonal schedule adjustment will be made to short-turn trips at Nederland Park-n-Ride due to Eldora Ski Resort not operating during the summer.

Also, to allow for connections to Boulder County’s Hessie Trailhead Shuttle, Route NB will provide connections at Nederland High School on Fridays, weekends and holidays. More information on the Hessie Trailhead Shuttle and operating schedule can be found here.

Final Changes for Rail

D Line | MODIFIED

RTD will adjust service frequency by balancing service to match demand and extend the hours of operation to match the E Line, which will produce a distribution of service that creates connections to the southwest corridor in the late evenings.

Schedule Updates

Monday-Thursday and Sunday: Extend service to midnight to provide connections from the E Line to the D Line and Littleton•Mineral Station in the evenings, while reducing service frequency between 6:30–8:00 p.m. to 30-minutes from 15-minutes.
Friday: Extend service to 2 a.m. to match E Line and provide connections to the D Line and the Littleton•Mineral Station after 10 p.m. that currently aren’t provided. Reduce service frequency between 7:30–9:00 p.m. to 30-minutes from 15-minutes.
Saturday: Extend service to 2:00 a.m. on 30-minute headways to match E Line service and provide connections to the D Line and Littleton•Mineral Station that currently aren’t provided. Reduce service frequency between 8:00–10:00 a.m., and 7:00–8:00 p.m. to 30-minutes from 15-minutes.

While existing customers will be impacted by the reduced service frequency periods, extending the service span will provide positive impacts to the community and provide connections later in the evening that customers have been requesting since fall of 2020.

E Line | MODIFIED

RTD will adjust service frequency by balancing service to match demand and extend the service span to accommodate demand for late night service for events and evening staff. Balancing service frequency to ridership is intended to improve route performance efficiency and cost effectiveness while improving service span coverage.

Schedule Updates:

Monday-Thursday: Extend 30-minute frequency until midnight. This addresses the requirement to match the increased service hours added to the W Line per the FTA agreement requiring any increase in service to be matched on the Southeast Rail Extension from Lincoln to RidgeGate Parkway.
Sunday: Reduce service frequency between 8:00–10:00 a.m. to 30-minutes from 15-minutes due to low ridership and move those hours to the evening due to increased request and demand for 30-minute service to midnight.

H Line | MODIFIED

RTD will adjust service frequency by balancing service to match demand and extend the service span to match the E Line service, creating coverage and spreading service span to create connections to Aurora in the late evening.

Balancing service is intended to improve route performance efficiency and cost effectiveness. Intent is to offset the D and H lines on the reduced 30-minute service to maintain 15-minute service in the central corridor of Denver with convenient transfers to the E Line for improved connectivity.

Schedule Updates:

Monday-Thursday: Extend service to midnight to provide connections from the E Line to Aurora, while reducing service frequency between 6:30–9:00 p.m. to 30-minutes.
Friday: Extend service span to 2 a.m. from 10:00 p.m. to match with E Line service and provide connections and service span coverage for the alignments. Reduce service frequency between 6:30–9:00 p.m. to 30-minutes.
Saturday: Extend service to 2 a.m. from 10:00 p.m. to match E Line service and provide connection and service coverage to Aurora. Reduce service frequency between 6:00–9:00 p.m. to 30-minutes.
Sunday: Reduce service between 6:00–9:00 p.m. to 30-minutes from 15-minutes and extend service to midnight from 10:00 p.m. to match E Line service and provide connections to Aurora.

N Line | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to improve on-time performance.

R Line | MODIFIED

Schedule adjustments will be made to improve on-time performance per the safety improvements made to the R Line, while also improving connections to the A Line.

W Line | MODIFIED

RTD will adjust operating hours and service frequency to meet demand and balance service to improve route performance, cost effectiveness, connections, and coverage.

Schedule Updates:

Monday-Thursday: Extend 30-minute service frequency to midnight from 10:00 p.m. per increased demand and ridership.
Sunday: Extend service on 30-minute frequency to midnight from 10:00 p.m., while reducing service frequency to 30-minutes from 15-minutes between 8:00–10:00 a.m. due to low ridership.