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East Boulder County commuters and University of Colorado students, staff and faculty are the primary targets of two new circulator bus services scheduled to launch in late summer.
Debuting Sept. 1, the Dash will run along South Boulder Road between Louisville and Lafayette, making a loop through central Louisville and turning around at the Lafayette Park'n'Ride lot on South Public Road.
The Stampede, which begins service Aug. 26, will travel in a figure-eight that includes the main Boulder campus, the east campus and the CU Research Park.
Meanwhile, RTD will spend the summer ironing out service problems along Broadway that caused the Regional Transportation District to take back the popular Skip circulator bus from the contractor that had been operating the route, said Nataly Handlos, transportation planner for the city of Boulder.
Both the CU and east-county services will run on the same model: frequent buses with catchy names that connect with other services and go where people live, work and study.
Both additions to the Community Transit Network are operating as two-year pilot programs, funded largely by grants from the Federal Transit Administration. And both bus routes will be staffed by RTD drivers for the first two years of operation.
The Dash will kick off in September, replacing RTD's 227 bus...