The FREX commuter bus service between Colorado Springs and downtown Denver, another casualty in the city’s proposed 2010 budget, may pick up a lifeline, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports.

A “last-ditch effort” is under way to sell five surplus FrontRange Express buses to keep the service running next year, said Sherre Ritenour, the city’s transit services manager.

The bus service, which includes stops in Monument and Castle Rock, “is currently slated not to operate beginning Jan. 1 unless it’s funded by this very unique idea,” she said.

The state Transportation Commission will consider the proposal Thursday and decide whether to use the proceeds from the sale of the buses to fund FREX in 2010 or to redirect the money to other state projects, she said.

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