Talk:Boulder, Colorado
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Transportation
Edited the Transportation section to correct errors about bus system.
Dash, Skip, Jump, Stampede, and Bound are all owned by RTD and operated by First Transit. The original entry had included several of these routes with the Hop as being operated by Go Boulder.
- Regardless, those routes are an important and integral part of Boulder transportation, and are very popular and prominent. I've put them back in, but left their managerial details unspoken-for. Feel free to add details about who operates/owns them but do not remove them. Thanks! --The silentist 06:52, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I know this isn't vital information to get right, but technically, the RTD now partly funds the Hop, and the University of Colorado Student Union has long been a financial partner in it. In fact, they apparently pay for all of the Night Hop service [1], which explains its existence as late night buses never serve enough people to get tax money. Also, I know the Bolt is operated by RTD, but the other routes are not. So somehow we need to word this more generally because each bus route was a totally seperate creation and negotiation, with financing and operation varying accordingly. --Laura Scudder | Talk 18:07, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
Funding and Operation
I originally added the statement about GO Boulder's management and funding, which I based on information I got from the bus driver. To clarify regarding the Hop and GO Boulder's lack of commercial advertising, I emailed the city and here's what I got:
From: Cris Jones
Hi Ken,
The HOP is operated by a non-profit organization called Special Transit (www.specialtransit.org). The service is paid for through a partnership between RTD, CU, and the city of Boulder. RTD passes are accepted on all the named bus routes. Interior advertisements on all buses beside the HOP are handled by RTD's advertising contractor Lamar Advertising. We do not provide interior ad space on the HOP route for anything other than non-profit organizations.
Does this answer your questions?
Thank you!
Cris Jones
I was asking specifically about how funding works for The HOP and why GO Boulder buses don't have any commercial advertisements, as I wasn't aware at the time that other points of fact were in dispute.
- Ken
Notable people
According to nobelprize.org, no person named "Joel" or "Button" ever won an award, so I'm removing that name.
The best known Charles Boettcher (unambiguously called "Charles … III" in one source) was born in Germany (1852); his grandson Charles Boettcher (called by one source "Charles … II") was born in Denver (1901). Claudius Kedzie Boettcher (son of the German-born Charles and father of the Denver-born Charles) was born in Boulder (1875). Another source says "Charles … III" owned the Denver Falcons ice hockey team in 1950; German Charles died in 1952, so this may be him, the grandson, or a third Charles. Anyway I'm removing Charles Boettcher from this section because of all the uncertainty.
I'm also removing the years, since it's not obvious what they mean (they're not all dates of birth).
"Culture of Rioting"
Can the anonymous user who keeps vandalizing the page with obviously false information and a heading "Culture of Rioting" stop? On one of the paragraphs which says "no students were suspended", the source link, when followed by a Daily Camera subscriber states: "CU also is proceeding with disciplinary action against 15 of its students. Several have admitted their roles in the riot, and one already has accepted a four-year suspension"
The number of times the alleged riots times varies with each vandalizing, and as a resident a few blocks away, I can recall maybe 3 times the police were sent to the hill in the past ten years.