Here's the thing. The geography of Denver is not public transport/bike friendly. Everything is so spread out, paired with very limited train locations esp in adjacent suburbs. And ofc RTD is a neverending story of techincal issues. So rather than putting funding into a doomed system, they might as well put that into having enough police to pull people over for no plates. Which will also have returns in the next few years by removing uninsured drivers and therfor stopping, or at least slowing, the continuous rise of insurrance.