Tag: mountain metropolitan transit
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EDITORIAL: A needed reassessment for Colorado public transit
You rarely have to fight for a seat if you ride the Denver metro area’s Regional Transportation District (RTD). On plenty of routes you might have a bus all to yourself — or even an entire light-rail train. The same goes for Mountain Metropolitan Transit in the state’s No. 2 metro area, Colorado Springs. On…
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Mountain Metro bus driver dies after medical emergency on route
Two days after a Metropolitan Mountain Transit (MMT) bus crashed at an intersection on Austin Bluffs Parkway, a driver died of a medical emergency on a Monday morning route. According to the public transportation’s Facebook page Monday, the incident happened on Route 1 around 8:30 a.m. A quick-thinking passenger took control of the bus and…
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Mountain Metro Transit proposes spring service changes
Mountain Metropolitan Transit is proposing adding a total of eight new bus stops on two of its routes beginning this spring. The service changes are part of regular updates to the transit service’s routes every spring and fall, spokeswoman Elaine Sheridan said Wednesday. The city enterprise makes service decisions based on route performance reviews as…
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Mountain Metropolitan Transit’s switch to electric hits snag
A year and a half after Mountain Metropolitan Transit put four new electric buses into service in Colorado Springs, only two of them are running. Proterra, the company that made the buses, is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is being sold. Though the electric buses were mostly funded through grant money, News 5 Investigates has…
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Battery-powered electric buses added to Colorado Springs mass transit system
Mountain Metropolitan Transit officials have unveiled four battery-powered, electric buses that they say will produce zero emissions and offer quieter service while they complement the transit system’s fleet of 67 buses that operate via a clean diesel technology. (Video: Rich Laden/The Gazette)
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Free downtown Colorado Springs shuttle planned for next spring
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Visitors and residents could start hopping on and off a free downtown Colorado Springs shuttle next spring. The new bus service is expected to run mostly up and down Tejon Street providing service to the new Robson Arena at Colorado College, the downtown bus station,…
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Free downtown Colorado Springs shuttle planned for next spring
Visitors and residents could start hopping on and off a free downtown Colorado Springs shuttle next spring. The new bus service is expected to run mostly up and down Tejon Street providing service to the new Robson Arena at Colorado College, the downtown bus station, among other stops. On the south end of the route…