Colorado weather, RTD issues snarl Memorial Day travel at DIA

Spring thunderstorms and mechanical problems on the train connecting Denver International Airport to downtown snarled tour for countless passengers over Memorial Day weekend A dilemma with the Regional Transportation District s A Line caused long lines and left particular travelers with limited options for getting home late Monday and early Tuesday morning RTD Director Chris Nicholson first learned of problems on Reddit where passengers posted about waiting in line with hundreds of other people to catch the bus if they could get on at all while rideshare companies surged prices to more than for a trip downtown It sucks Nicholson stated We have a responsibility to get people where they need to go especially when you re talking about something like the airport There are several things in life you can afford to delay and getting to a flight is not one of them The A Line started having problems with signal equipment at around p m Monday and bureaucrats replaced the train with bus shuttles at p m spokesperson Tina Jaquez stated in a message RTD assigned four buses to provide shuttle institution and the train started running again just before p m Tuesday RTD has very sparse extra bus operators right now Nicholson commented which makes responding to arrangement changes a challenge The agency is hiring more people which should alleviate selected of those problems he added I m sorry for the people who had to deal with that Monday night he noted This is our premier masses transit line and I want people to trust it Todd Lauck was on one of the flights that were delayed by severe weather at DIA on Monday and missed his connecting flight home Related Articles More than flights delayed dozens canceled at Denver International Airport Driver crashes into RTD train in Denver s Five Points neighborhood th Street Mall rebrands as its -year makeover approaches finish Colfax Marathon is this weekend here s how to avoid road closures Crash involving RTD bus in Denver causes serious injuries Lauck was flying from Iowa to New Mexico and connecting through Denver when his plane was delayed in Iowa He spent nearly three hours Monday night being sent back and forth between United Airlines and DIA leaders trying to get a voucher for a hotel before he gave up and paid for it out of his own pocket At one point a gate agent mentioned all they could offer him was a cot in the terminal It was really careless the way they handled it and left everybody on their own he explained I was around hundreds of people who were just on their own and didn t know what to do Weather woes continued at the airport Tuesday morning after federal executives ordered a ground stop after a dense fog descended on DIA Tuesday morning Planes were grounded for about an hour before moving to a ground delay which was lifted at around p m More than flights were delayed and dozens were canceled at DIA on Tuesday according to the flight tracking website FlightAware Get more Colorado news by signing up for our Mile High Roundup email newsletter