"The base system — traditional bus services that weren’t a part of the 2004 voter-approved FasTracks rail lines and bus rapid transit commuter systems — is now subsidizing the FasTracks system."

Bingo. Light rail is a wet-dream boondoggle enthusiastically support by socialist who will never use it. The reality is empty trollys most of the time. The kick-backs and corruption only come from construction....so that is always the irrational imperative of RTD.

DP is right. Stop expanding...because each expansion makes the HUGE unsustainable infrastructure worse. Where DP is wrong is in the supposition that "focusing" will make what has been built work. Shut. It. Down. Build roads instead. Buses work great, and benefit from the flexibility of roads.