Light-rail trains on four Regional Transportation District lines will resume running with three-car sets on weekdays after riders protested a decision to shorten them to two cars this week.
A spokeswoman for RTD said the decision to run smaller train sets on the D, E, W and H lines, which took effect Monday, was based on low average ridership per train, well below the longer trains’ capacity. ButThat’s especially so on commuter-heavy routes such as RTD’s light-rail lines, whichon average than bus routes. The recent omicron-variant wave of COVID-19 cases set back some of those gains.
“We took a careful look at the number of customers riding per train. In so doing, we discovered that, throughout the day, the average number of individuals was 13 per train — not per car, per train,” RTD spokeswoman Laurie Huff wrote in an email. “In an effort to reduce power consumption, maintenance costs and wear and tear on equipment, we reduced the size to match our ridership numbers.
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