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Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility Update - Dec. 3, 2008
 
RTD's Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility (CRMF) Environmental Assessment (EA) team is writing to provide an update on its plans for the proposed CRMF.

As part of RTD's effort to identify ways to address increased costs of the FasTracks program, including the CRMF, the CRMF team recently participated in a peer review of the proposed project. A peer review is conducted by inviting independent transit experts with extensive experience on similar projects to consider the project and recommend modifications to improve it. The peer review panel, consisting of transit program experts from Salt Lake City, Austin/Dallas and New York, offered program-level and project-specific recommendations (e.g. ways to minimize impacts, reduce costs, improve efficiencies) that could help to address the cost increases. Part of the review included suggestions to reconsider the CRMF in comparison to other commuter rail facilities around the country.

Based on the peer review panel's recommendations regarding the range of program elements, including the CRMF, RTD is now evaluating new configurations for the CRMF to minimize the required footprint for the facility. Once the footprint has been minimized, RTD will be able to identify the potential locations that could accommodate the new footprint.

RTD hopes to complete this evaluation by early 2009. At that point, it will recommend whether to continue its current plan to build all or a part of the CRMF at the existing Platte Division Bus Maintenance Facility or to select a new preferred site for the proposed facility.

Bus Maintenance Facility Update
RTD's existing Bus Maintenance Facility (BMF) is located at 31st Street and Ringsby Court, where the CRMF is currently proposed to be located. The BMF would need to be relocated if the proposed CRMF is built there. If RTD's due diligence in minimizing the footprint for the CRMF site results in the identification of a new preferred site, the BMF would not need to be relocated. As a result, RTD will not make a decision on a recommended site for a relocated BMF until the evaluation of potential alternate CRMF sites is complete.
 

CANCELLED: Issue Focused Team Meeting - Nov. 19, 2008

Regrettably, we need to reschedule the Impact and Mitigation Issue Focused Team meeting that was planned for next Wednesday, November 19, at the Stapleton Recreation Center. The Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility (CRMF) team needs additional time to coordinate with local governments and regulatory agencies in order to refine the mitigation measures that were going to be discussed at the meeting next week.

We will notify you once a new date and time for this meeting has been determined. Please e-mail the project team with questions.  

Thank you for continued interest and engagement in the CRMF Environmental Assessment (EA).

RTD FasTracks Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility EA Team