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| Transportation |
| Boulder is easily visited from Denver via the
Route B Express (http://www.rtd-denver.com/), which runs from
Market Street Station to Downtown Boulder (right near the Pearl
Street Mall, which is the first stop for any tourist). Hiking
trails start just at the edge of town a few blocks away. |
| Boulder is a city where the bicycle is used as
a serious form of transportation, and the city has high rates
of bicycle commuting and walking. The city is part of the Denver
Regional Transit District, yet tends to go its own way with
transportation policy. The city's transportation office, Go
Boulder (http://www.ci.boulder.co.us/goboulder/), operates an
extensive busing program, including the high-frequency small
buses the "Hop" the "Skip". |
| Go Boulder and the RTD run several other similarly
branded bus routes, including the "Bound," "Dash,"
and "Leap." These have become increasingly popular
and visible parts of Boulder's public transportation; many residents
and businesses pay for transit not by the ride, but by the year,
under a program called "ECO-Pass." Under the same
program, entire neighborhoods have banded together to buy a
bus pass for everyone living in the area. Additionally, all
students at the University of Colorado at Boulder are issued
bus passes as part of their school ID, paid for by student fees.
Most vehicles have a NextBus satellite tracking system. |
| However, like most of the other major metropolitan
areas in Colorado, the car is by far the most visible form of
personal transportation. But with recent increases in traffic
load and little room for further roadway expansion within the
city, alternative forms of transportation have become increasingly
popular even among the middle and upper classes of Boulder. |
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