LOUISVILLE – — High-ranking officials from the Regional Transportation District got an earful from residents and elected leaders in Louisville Wednesday on the future of commuter rail in the northwest corridor.
Councilman Jay Keany said an option being considered by RTD to nix a train line between Denver and Longmont in favor of bus service makes Louisville and surrounding communities feel like the “ugly stepchild” in a metro area that has been promised rail transit for the past eight years.
“We’re not getting what we were told we were going to get,” Keany told RTD General Manager Phil Washington and other agency officials who came to City Hall for a public hearing on the issue.
Resident Steve Poppitz said those living in the northwest corridor have been paying sales taxes for nearly a decade to support FasTracks, an effort to build six rail lines in and around Denver, including a 41-mile line from downtown Denver to Longmont via Louisville.
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