{"id":20501,"date":"2019-12-10T10:18:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61973"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:18:33","slug":"new-bustang-route-to-connect-grand-county-to-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/new-bustang-route-to-connect-grand-county-to-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bustang route to connect Grand County to Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winter Park hopes its new transit center helps draw an interregional Bustang line through Grand County.<\/strong>
McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Beginning in 2021, Grand County residents will have the option to ride to Denver and back thanks to the Colorado Department of Transportation\u2019s planned Bustang expansion.<\/p>\n

Bustang, an interregional public transportation system, will roll out new routes in January 2021, including one from Craig to Denver via US Highway 40 with stops in Winter Park<\/a> and Kremmling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see this as a huge win for our community,\u201d said Michael Koch, Winter Park\u2019s transit manager.<\/p>\n

The bus service would run a year-round, daily route starting in Craig in the morning and returning from Denver in the evening. CDOT has not yet released the schedule for the route.<\/p>\n

Stops on the route include Steamboat Springs, Kremmling, Winter Park and Idaho Springs.<\/p>\n

Koch said the route will provide a level of interregional connection that hasn\u2019t previously existed.<\/p>\n

\u201cA huge benefit to Grand County residents is now they have that morning connection down to the Front Range, especially for those vital services like social services or medical services,\u201d Koch said. \u201cSo they can go down in the morning and have all their appointments in one day, which I think is really huge for our rural community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, CDOT announced its Snowstang routes, which are wintertime, interregional bus lines to ski areas, with a route between Denver and Steamboat Springs. <\/p>\n

Koch had lobbied for that route to come through Winter Park, but CDOT ultimately chose to circumvent Winter Park by connecting Denver to Steamboat via Colorado Highway 9 through Silverthorne.<\/p>\n

Bob Wilson, communications manager for CDOT\u2019s region 3, which includes Grand County, said the decision was primarily based on Highway 9 being the shorter route.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would require going over two passes,\u201d Wilson said of a Snowstang route via Highway 40. \u201cThey were trying to find the quickest way they could get between Denver and Steamboat Springs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson noted that Winter Park Resort is served by the Winter Park Express and California Zephyr Amtrak routes. However, he said there is always the possibility of a future Snowstang route as the program expands. <\/p>\n

Though Winter Park won\u2019t see a Snowstang line this season, Koch is excited for the access a year-round Bustang connection will provide.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the Bustang service and the Winter Park Express and California Zephyr service, Grand County residents really have more viable options than they\u2019ve had in the past,\u201d Koch said.<\/p>\n

Koch added that he will continue to work with Bustang to show them how to utilize the town\u2019s future transit center at Cooper Creek and potentially to sell tickets there.<\/p>\n

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Winter Park hopes its new transit center helps draw an interregional Bustang line through Grand County.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com Beginning in 2021, Grand County residents will have the option to ride to Denver and back thanks to the Colorado Department of Transportation\u2019s planned Bustang expansion. Bustang, an interregional public transportation system, will roll out new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 21:09:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}