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Commuter Rail, Bus 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.
POSTPONED - New Date Coming Soon:
Bus Maintenance Facility Public Workshop #2 - Nov. 12, 2008
The public meeting originally scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 12, has been postponed. A new date will soon be released for the rescheduled Bus Maintenance Facility public meeting.
POSTPONED:
Nov. 12, 2008
6-8 p.m.
Stapleton Recreation Center
5090 Broadway, Denver, CO
RTD needs to relocate its existing Bus Maintenance Facility to accommodate the new FasTracks Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility. RTD has identified potential locations for the relocated Bus Maintenance Facility that passed a basic feasibility analysis and is concluding a detailed analysis of the sites. The five sites that were evaluated are:
- Fox South - Southwest corner of I-25 and I-70
- Fox North - North side of W. 48th Avenue and Fox Street (North of I-70)
- 51st West - E. 51st Avenue west of Washington Street
- 51st East - Northeast corner of E. 51st Avenue and Emerson Street
- 54th - Southeast corner of E. 54th Avenue and Washington Street
Please submit a comment or e-mail the project team with questions or concerns.
