About 30 people attended a public RTD hearing Monday night in Boulder on plans to cut or reduce services, including doubling the wait times for the popular Route 205 from Gunbarrel to Boulder, the Daily Camera reports.

RTD’s plan — part of a regional set of reductions also aimed at Westminster, Conifer, downtown Denver and Golden — would impact four routes in Boulder. RTD officials said the routes were chosen because of ridership declines. In total, the cuts would save RTD an estimated $376,400, or 57 percent of its total cost savings of $662,400 from reductions systemwide.

Martha Roskowski, program manager for Go Boulder, the city’s alternative-transportation program, said Boulder is unfairly bearing the brunt of the current round of cuts. “It’s really important to our community to keep a good transit system,” she said. “We rely on local bus service. That’s our workhorse.”

RTD spokesman Scott Reed said since August 2007, RTD has cut $12.9 million. Of that, Boulder County’s reduction is $873,860, or about 7 percent of the total, Reed said.

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