Colorado lawmakers will drop plans to remake RTD’s board — for now — after facing blowback

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Colorado lawmakers will drop plans to remake RTD’s board — for now — after facing blowback

Colorado lawmakers are abandoning plans to overhaul the Regional Transportation District’s governing board and change how its members are selected after transit officials blasted the plan. Reps. William Lindstedt and Meg Froelich said Wednesday that they are still set to pursue other RTD reforms through House Bill 1447. But they said they plan to drop the bill’s most contentious provision: a plan to eventually cut the board’s size down from 15 e…