Rural Areas
Meet the Rural Region That Opted for VelociBuses Over Highway Expansion
The four sparsely populated mountain counties make up the Roaring Fork Valley extend over roughly 50 miles on Colorado's Western Slope. About 32,000 people are interspersed throughout the valley in small towns like Basalt, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs, but the local economy revolves around the nearby resort town of Aspen.
February 14, 2013
Making Rural Transit Work
Transit in rural areas is tricky. Folks need to go farther, the passengers are more dispersed, and there's less money to go around.
May 25, 2012