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The following is a press release from the City of Longmont and is published by the Longmont Observer as a public service.
RTD is hosting a public meeting on September 26 at the Longmont Public Library conference room, 409 4th Avenue, at 6 pm to discuss discontinuing service on Longmont bus routes.
Starting January 13, 2019, RTD is proposing to discontinue service on routes LD1 and LD2 south of US 36 due to low ridership and duplicate service on FF routes. Service would also be rerouted south of Lafayette Park-n-Ride via US 287, west Dillon Road, SH42 (96th Street), Interlocken Parkway, Vara and into US 36 & Flatiron Station.
Service frequency would be increased to 60 minutes all day between 5:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m., combined with LD1 and LD3 rush-hour frequency, 30-minute frequency would be created between both routes between 8th & Coffman Park-n-Ride and US 287 and Dillon Road. Route 225 would be renamed between Lafayette Park-n-Ride and US 36 & Broomfield Station to Route LD3 and reduce service frequency between US 36 & Broomfield Station and Lafayette Park-n-Ride to 60 minutes, maintaining the current service span. Route 225 would be retained between Downtown Boulder Station and Mohawk and Talbot. Additionally, Route 225 service would move from East Boulder Recreation Center to Mohawk and Talbot and weekday rush-hour service frequency would increase to 15 minutes in both directions.
Longmont city officials have asked RTD to wait on any service cuts involving Longmont until more evaluation is completed on the full effects of these cuts on our transit users.
In addition to the public meeting, RTD is asking for public feedback about service changes at [email protected]
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