As Denver continues to grow, we must provide more reliable and safe mobility options to move more people where they need to go, and improve connections to key destinations and between neighborhoods. Denver Moves: Transit is Denver's first-ever citywide transit plan creating a local transit vision and guiding framework that calls for improving the quality of transit options in our city – making transit more reliable, more frequent, and more convenient for daily use.
Recommends investments in key corridors in Denver that will result in high-quality and reliable transit.
Recommends a network of frequent transit service corridors, to provide service that arrives more often, all day, every day.
Identifies improvements in pedestrian and bike infrastructure and amenities to make it easier and safer for people walking and biking to get to transit.
Promotes transit-supportive land use and developments and instills a "sense of place" at transit stations and stops in Denver.
Recommends continued support for affordable fare programs fare payment technology to make transit more affordable easier to use, and programs that promote and encourage the use of transit.
The goals, strategies and actions set forth in the Denver Moves: Transit plans are now guiding the city's work on multimodal programs, projects and initiatives across Denver. As Blueprint Denver and the other Denveright plans continue through the review and approval process, we will continue to ensure the Denver Moves are aligned with land use, transportation and other citywide goals.
Review the Summary of Community Feedback and Plan Revisions Highlights (PDF) to learn about the public feedback we received and what changed from the first draft of Denver Moves: Transit to the current version.
Plan includes Chapters 1–4; visit the downloads page for appendices and attachments.
If you were unable to attend in person or want to review the materials the team provided at the January open houses, visit the online open house.
The goals for Denver Moves: transit were developed using feedback from the community, stakeholders, and Task Force. More than 75% of survey respondents feel that these goals capture what they hope the plan will accomplish. These goals complement the Denveright Vision Elements.
Over the last two decades, the Denver region has made significant investments in the RTD transit system to help Denver and the region accommodate growth. Regional investments including Union Station and FasTracks are critically important but are only one piece of the puzzle —travelers within the city of Denver require fast, frequent, and convenient connections to jobs, neighborhoods, schools, and services.
With increasing demand on our transit system, now is the time for Denver to examine how transit can play a key role in creating a successful mobility system that moves more people and provides more freedom of choice for people to move into, out of and through our city as our population grows.
Mobility is a key ingredient to connect people to jobs, housing and a high quality of life. Denver is creating a safe, reliable and cost-effective transportation system, providing people with more choices and the freedom to get around town on the travel modes that meet their day-to-day needs.
Leveraging RTD's investments in rail and bus, Denver Moves: Transit will identify a local vision for transit that enhances the current transit system to attract ridership and build a culture of transit in Denver. A local vision for transit in Denver will help accommodate the city's unprecedented growth and sus­tain Denver as the healthy and vibrant community that has attracted such growth. Denver Moves: Transit will both set a vision for transit in Denver and explore options for the City's role in delivering that vision in how we can make the existing transit system even better, in partnership with RTD.
Through community engagement, the Denver Moves: Transit planning effort will work to educate residents about transit opportunities, costs and potential tradeoffs. With input from the community, the plan will identify citywide needs, values and a shared vision, and then define priorities for providing intercity transit solutions for our neighborhoods and connecting key corridors and local streets to the regional transit system.
The plan will align projects in phases that reflect the community's priorities and available funding sources. Finally, the plan will determine costs and evaluate funding mechanisms and policies required to achieve the vision.
2019: Plans are finalized and will continue to be coordinate with the review and approval of Blueprint Denver and the other Denveright plans.