The Blue Bus is supported primarily by transit gross receipt taxes, which provides approximately 70% of revenues.

In the following years, NCRTD expanded service further, aided by a gross receipts tax of one-eighth of one percent that was approved by voters in 2008.

And in March 2016, the RTD began service along a new route between Santa Fe and La Cienega.

;[7] and the Cities of Española and Santa Fe, the Town of Taos and Edgewood and the Village of Chama.

The Rio Metro RTD, based in Albuquerque, sits on the Board as an ex-officio member.