RTD has proposed discontinuing the RockiesRide, a service that gets Colorado Rockies fans from Longmont, Westminster and Thornton to downtown Denver for baseball games.
RTD spokeswoman Tina Jaquez said that the bus service would be discontinued because of low ridership and issues with parking downtown.
RockiesRide began in 1993, the same year as the Rockies’ expansion season in Major League Baseball. At that time, RTD was operating 12 routes to 23 Park-n-Rides and ran about 175 buses to all home games, according to a memo prepared for the RTD board.
In 2017, however, the service had dwindled to two routes serving four Park-n-Rides — one route ran from Longmont’s Eighth and Coffman location to the Longmont Park-n-Ride and then Coors Field, while the other ran from the Wagon Road Park-n-Ride in Westminster to the Thornton Park-n-Ride and then to Coors Field.
Last year, the RockiesRide only operated for opening day, the Fourth of July and weekend home games. On those days, RTD would run six buses, averaging 472 boardings per game (about 236 passengers), according to the memo.
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