Community Opportunity Stations. Each Community Opportunity Center(COS) becomes a business opportunity for large and small businesses, community services, meeting sites, education and training.
Station Theme. Each COS name designation will be that of a different country. This country name designation opens greater community outreach, business development opportunities, tourism possibilities and new business foci.
Advisory Councils. Community involvement in the STE Sustainable Synergy Business Model is important to STE and to the community. These councils ensure quality communications with those around each Community Opportunity Station and provide a vital link to identify and address community ideas, expectations and aspirations.
Public-Private-Partnerships. Commensurate with Advisory Councils is the more formal creation of Public-Private-Partnerships in each community. This work makes it possible to identify directions, solve challenges, meet community needs and desired outcomes so that STE can publicly work with authorities to improve and provide vital services.
Intergovernmental Agreements. Where possible, STE is anxious to form intergovernmental agreements(IGA) with authorities that help facilitate community development, provide eminent domain and coordinate sewer, water, electricity and other vital collaboration areas.
Tax Revenue. With the buildout of the Community Opportunity Stations, municipalities will enlarge the sources of tax revenue which will help underwrite ongoing and future municipal development needs.
Tourism. STE wants to provide communities with the opportunity to part of a regional effort to serve local use of the services but to also attract non-residents to visit the area and partake in community activities and COS features. With the naming of each COS as a specific country, expansion of outside interest brings new ideas and new business possibilities to the community.
Housing. Retaining and attracting local residents is necessary to create community vitality and growth. With the development of affordable housing as part of the COS, underserved and new residents can quickly become part of the Communities’ fiber.
Congestion Reduction. Congestion and traffic related problems seem to become part of every community. STE is striving to relieve some of the congestion by working with communities to provide hydrail commuter services so that residents can be relieved of the expanding congestion.
Community Connectivity Corridor. Many STE community forum attendees have communicated that they do not interact or attend desired activities due to the difficulties associated with traveling to or from home due to the traffic, safety, parking and congestion. STE’s commuter corridor opens many possibilities that young and old alike can enjoy.
Health and Wellness. Access to health facilities and other necessary services is made easier with the STE commuter services. This service will save lives and relieve unneeded stress to families. This service along with the decrease in air pollutants makes a higher quality of life for all.
To provide the traveling public with sustainable 21st Century Transportation by
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North Front Range Rail Connector
Roaring Fork Valley Rail Connector
Parker to Lone Tree Connector
Colorado Springs to Franktown Connector Rail
Vail Valley Regional Connector
I-70 Mountain Express
Castle Rock to Lone Tree Connector
Sustainable Transportation and Energy Holdings, Inc. (formally Rocky Mountain Rail) is a private, for-profit Colorado Corporation established to bring quality passenger rail service to Colorado and beyond by merging the benefits of clean renewable energy generation with 21st Century hydrail-powered, independent coach rail service. This non-tax, non-government funded system is underwritten by the development, use and marketing of renewable energy. The STE Sustainable Synergy Business Model© is a model, created solely by and owned by Sustainable Systems of Colorado. It was designed by STE to better represent the needs and critical aspects of transportation demanded by today’s travelers. Opportunities for STE equity partnerships/collaboration are encouraged.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to