The car rolled up to Swink Hall, an exhibition space at El Paso County Fairgrounds, Calhan, Colorado, on Oct. 18, 2017. A gathering of fewer than 20 representatives of government agencies and non-governmental social service agencies awaited Envida, staff from a Colorado Springs specialized transit agency, so that they could learn about the needs of this rural town of 1,000 people and the surrounding unincorporated county, which holds another 27,000, all without public transportation. Within one year, the Envida staff would be back with regularly scheduled, publicly funded bus service for the first time in decades. Today, however, they just needed to listen.
