News Articles

12/1/08, Rocky Mountain News - Mayors, RTD grapple with FasTracks budget woes. Full Article

11/30/08, Aurora Sentinel - Major RTD transfer station on track for completion.
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11/25/08, The Denver Post - RTD hoping new year brings new funds for rails.
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11/24/08, The Denver Post - Happy rails in RTD's future? - The economy is cause for worry, but it could drop construction costs. Full Article

Aurora Sentinel - Poll Results

11/19/08, Rocky Mountain News - RTD adopts record $1.35 billion budget.
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11/12/08, Rocky Mountain News - RTD offers options for FasTracks build-out.
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11/11/08, The Denver Post - RTD's winners, losers - Board weighs FasTracks options. Full Article

11/06/08, Rocky Mountain News - FasTracks' tax gets caution flag - Voters' frugality prompts new RTD board members to rethink asking for budget bailout.
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11/06/08, Rocky Mountain News - RTD's freshman class. Full Article

11/05/08, Rocky Mountain News - No big changes expected from RTD board.
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11/03/08, Rocky Mountain News - A lesson for RTD? - Tax-resistant voters should give the district pause. Full Article

10/30/08, Rocky Mountain News - Jolted by FasTracks cost estimates, Aurora plans own I-225 evaluation. Full Article

10/27/08, Aurora Sentinel - Council: Transit areas must survive sans rail. 
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10/08/08, Aurora Sentinel - RTD scales back - Representatives offers alternatives for local leg of FasTracks.  Full Article

10/07/08, Denver Post - Hoping to make a track team - 3 groups eye RTD.
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10/07/08, Denver Post - Vying to guide FasTracks' path - Candidates differ on rail's timetable and funding. Three of the four incumbents have no opponents. Full Article

9/26/08, Associated Press - Denver's RTD gauges support for sales tax increase - Denver's Regional Transportation District is gauging support for another sales tax increase to expand bus and rail service. Full Article

9/25/08, Rocky Mountain News - FasTracks gets feedback - Most at hearing back tax hike to complete project. Full Article

9/25/08, Rocky Mountain News - RTD would face hurdles on FasTracks tax increase - RTD can't ask voters for a second FasTracks tax increase without going to the legislature for permission, and gatekeepers there say a lot of questions have to be answered before any decision would be made. Full Article

9/24/08, Aurora Sentinel - Perlmutter takes RTD to task over possible FasTracks cutbacks - The possibility of cuts to the local FasTracks line has raised the concern of a local congressman. Full Article

9/24/08, Denver Post - FasTracks options: Pay more or get less, board is told - To raise the full $7.9 billion needed to build all FasTracks rail lines by 2017, RTD would need to tack between 0.2 and 0.3 percentage points more to the 1 percent sales-and-use tax it already collects in metro Denver. Full Article

9/18/08, Aurora Sentinel - Design firm prepared to address RTD, Aurora traffic needs - A post-FasTracks Aurora promises fewer cars on the highways and interstates - and a lot more nearby new light rail stations. Full Article

9/18/08, ProgressiveRailroading.com - Denver RTD considers ways to handle skyrocketing FasTracks costs - During the next month, the Regional Transportation District of Denver (RTD) will host a series of pubic meetings to gather input on options for advancing the FasTracks expansion program. Full Article

9/17/08, YourHub.com - RTD reaches out to public for feedback on FasTrack - The Regional Transportation District (RTD) will host a series of public meetings in each of the 15 RTD districts to get public input on the options for moving forward with the agency's FasTracks transit expansion program. Full Article

9/9/08, Aurora Sentinel - FasTracks worries loom large during Iliff area planning session - A tone of uncertainty served as the backdrop for the final Iliff station area planning meeting held Sept. 9 at the Aurora Board of Realtors office on Evans Avenue. Full Article

9/8/08, Rocky Mountain News - Candidates vie to shape FasTracks - Seventeen people run for eight seats; all support project. Full Article

9/6/08, Rocky Mountain News - Head-in-sand metro cities - Don't confuse them with RTD facts. Full Editorial

9/3/08, Rocky Mountain News - Half of FasTracks soaring cost tied to North Metro, DIA lines - Two of FasTracks' 10 transit corridors now exceed $1 billion each in cost and together account for half of the spiraling price increase from $4.7 billion to $7.9 billion over the past four years, according to figures released by RTD on Tuesday. Full Article

9/3/08, Aurora Sentinel - RTD ponders FasTracks options - Rush-hour riders may be among the few commuters spared from the negative effects of cutbacks and delays to the Regional Transportation District's FasTracks program. Full Article

9/2/08, Denver Post - Rail-service cuts floated for overruns - RTD says some lines could see just rush-hour service to cover deficit. Full Article

8/22/08, Daily Camera - FasTracks program pleads with public - High costs force planners to consider other revenue sources Full Article

8/22/08, Denver Post - FasTracks fund gap may mean train in vain - FasTracks could have to push completion on some lines to 2034. Full Article

8/21/08, Denver Post - FasTracks price tag jumps - Meeting 2017 deadline vowed to voters now expected to cost $7.9 billion, up $1.8 million. Full Article

8/19/08, The Bond buyer Southwest Rail Agencies May Look to P3s - A convergence of economic and social trends is driving cities in the Southwest to rail as an alternative to cars and planes... Full Article

8/13/08, Aurora Sentinel - City: RTD's funding woes won't stand in the way of FasTracks work - AURORA | City staff and representatives from the FasTracks project say budget woes at the Regional Transportation District won't derail the planning process for new stretches of rail in the city. Full Article

7/23/08, Rocky Mountain News Editorial - It's time to face the hard choices.
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4/9/08, Aurora Sentinel - Building around the stop - The city's new stretch of light rail may be surrounded by high-rise apartments, pedestrian-friendly plazas and other mixed use developments, according to planning officials. Full Article

4/3/08, Aurora Sentinel - Development plans detailed for light rail areas - The city's new stretch of light rail may be surrounded by high rise apartments pedestrian-friendly plazas and other mixed use developments according to planning officials.
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4/2/08, Aurora Sentinel - The Voice of Aurora: Light rail sans parking is the fastracks to disaster - As transportation officials have begun the long laborious process of planning the long awaited light rail and Interstate 225 corridor two issues have crept into discussion that require immediate attention. Full article [PDF]

4/2/08, Aurora Sentinel - Project 225 points to widening of I225 by 2010 sets study timelines - The city planning department has mapped the major
I225 construction projects for the next five years pointing to light rail construction lane widening and neighborhood development as the most significant updates to the Aurora corridor. Full article [PDF]

4/2/08, Aurora Sentinel - Development plans detailed for light rail areas- The city's new stretch of light rail may be surrounded by high rise apartments pedestrian-friendly plazas and other mixed use developments
according to planning officials. Full article [PDF]

03/26/08, Aurora Sentinel - The Voice of Aurora: Bill is thinly veiled swipe at slowing RTD progress - Keeping FasTracks on the fast track is a tough job not made any easier by hampering legislation like House Bill 1278. Full Article

3/19/08, Aurora Sentinel - Heavy demand for light rail parking - On a
typical weekday morning parking spaces are a rare commodity at the Nine
Mile Park-n-Ride Full Article [PDF]

3/19/08, The Denver Post - Opinion - Two "smart" projects involving the Environmental Protection Agency one focused on smart growth and the other on smart energy use are helping to design a brighter future for Colorado and the Front Range. Full Article [PDF]

03/19/08, Aurora Sentinel - Other Voices: Stop the profitable RTD in its tracks- Colorado's taxpayers are beginning to take note of a recent abuse of our Constitution: eminent domain law. Simply put, the Fifth Amendment gives our government the right to compensate private property owners if their land must be seized for a public works project. Full Article

12/17/07, Aurora Sentinel - Parking worries exist for future light rail stations - There aren't enough parking spaces planned for the city's future light rail stations, members of city council said Monday night, Dec. 17. Full Article

11/14/07, Aurora Sentinel - Is Wal-Mart really the top draw for this land? - In the center of the city, prairie dogs are the only inhabitants of a large plot of land that some local leaders are hoping to transform into Aurora's new downtown. Full Article

11/8/07, Rocky Mountain News - The last new FasTracks corridor to get under way, the $619 million Interstate 225 light-rail line, kicked off its environmental study far behind schedule Wednesday but with a strategy for catching up. Full article [PDF]

10/31/07, Aurora Sentinel - Light Rail won't glide through Aurora until
2015, but RTD wants to hear residents' concerns and suggestions abut
the new transportation system this month. Full article [PDF]

6/21/2007, Aurora Sentinel - Developers balk at light rail talks - Local lawmakers halted plans June 21 to study the development of land that will one day surround an important light rail station, after developers complained about the city's hands-on approach. Full Article