Especially along the I-25 corridor, Santa Fe Drive and in the heart of downtown.
By Nathaniel Minor, Denverite
Greg Saville looked puzzled Tuesday morning as he stood at the Regional Transportation District’s light rail station at Interstate 25 and Broadway.
The station typically buzzes during rush hour with commuters, buses and trains all coming and going. But on this morning, only a few stragglers and the occasional bus were in sight.
RTD has suspended train service at this and three other stations until Friday morning as crews replace overhead power lines, an interruption Saville didn’t know about.
“I had no idea,” Saville said after this reporter told him about the suspended service.
He said he planned to drive into work instead and shell out $16 to park.
“Seems like this happens pretty frequently,” he said of recent service disruptions.
The power line replacement and two other maintenance projects are making RTD’s E, D and H light rail lines extremely difficult — and in some places impossible — to use this week, especially along the I-25 corridor, Santa Fe Drive and in the heart of downtown.
And because of staffing shortages, the transit agency isn’t running substitute buses between closed stations — a typical practice during service interruptions.