{"id":1319283,"date":"2020-04-03T17:32:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T23:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=995297"},"modified":"2020-04-03T17:32:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T23:32:51","slug":"city-council-to-evaluate-rfta-service-in-glenwood-at-special-meeting-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/city-council-to-evaluate-rfta-service-in-glenwood-at-special-meeting-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council to evaluate RFTA service in Glenwood at special meeting Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/rftacity-gpi-072519-1-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/rftacity-gpi-072519-1-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/rftacity-gpi-072519-1-1-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Glenwood Springs City Council is expected to vote on whether or not to suspend local RFTA bus service during a special meeting Monday.<\/p>\n<p>At a special meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, city councilors will consider an emergency order that would potentially terminate RFTA service in Glenwood Springs altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a tough decision,\u201d Mayor Pro Tem Shelley Kaup said Thursday night. \u201cI think that RFTA has made every effort to clean their buses and to keep their drivers safe and to have policies in place to keep the riders safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City Council already discussed the issue at its regularly scheduled meeting Thursday, but did not take any action.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/pi-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Instead, a majority of council wanted to see if the RFTA Board would make any additional service cut decisions at its own special meeting the very next morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the RFTA Board really should do some soul searching and do the right thing,\u201d Councilor Steve Davis said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The RFTA Board decided to maintain its current level of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/rfta-sticks-with-bare-bones-bus-service-in-aspen-area-resists-proposal-to-suspend-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cbare-bones\u201d<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i> service at its special meeting Friday.<\/p>\n<p>RFTA board members Godes and Basalt Mayor Jacque Whitsett supported ending service altogether. However, the board\u2019s six other members, including New Castle Mayor Art Riddile, did not.<\/p>\n<p>Glenwood Springs already shut down its Ride Glenwood service on March 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo weeks ago was a different world,\u201d Godes said.<\/p>\n<p>Godes commended RFTA on all it was doing to keep its drivers and riders safe, but still favored shutting it down.<\/p>\n<p>RFTA will not allow more than 10 passengers per bus and has temporarily suspended bus fares to limit in-person exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, RFTA has said it disinfects in-service buses every 24 hours, at the least, in addition to cleaning and sanitizing its bus stops and stations frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, in a 4-3 vote, Rifle City Council voted to temporarily suspend RFTA bus service beginning April 3.<\/p>\n<p>RFTA service will continue to New Castle and Silt.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not Glenwood Springs will decide to temporarily suspend RFTA service remains to be seen Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an opportunity to hear from people that are going to be impacted,\u201d Godes said. \u201cPick up the phone, send us an email \u2013 let us know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <em><a href=\"mailto:mabennett@postindependent.com\">mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/city-council-to-evaluate-rfta-service-in-glenwood-at-special-meeting-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glenwood Springs City Council is expected to vote on whether or not to suspend local RFTA bus service during a special meeting Monday. At a special meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, city councilors will consider an emergency order that would potentially terminate RFTA service in Glenwood Springs altogether. \u201cIt\u2019s a tough decision,\u201d Mayor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1319283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-23 04:23:13","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}