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11/06/08, Yourhub.com - Adams County cities unify against FasTracks option. Option 2 is not an option for cities in Adams County. Full Article

09/06/07 - Diesel vs. electric, input sought, Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel.
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06/06/07- Residents protest proposed FasTracks station, Northglenn Thornton Sentinel...Full Article

03/21/07 - RTD using two-budget strategy for FasTracks program, Rocky Mountain News - RTD is preparing two new budgets for FasTracks....Full Article

03/21/07 - Commerce City sees FasTracks rail plans, Rocky Mountain News - Residents get preview of North Metro corridor...Full Article

03/07/07 - FasTracks tilt toward diesel to be assessed, Rocky Mountain News
An RTD director believes the transit agency could save $200 million or more in its FasTracks program by using only diesel- powered commuter rail in four of...Full Article

03/07/07 - Fix in works on FasTracks rail holdup, Denver Post - Senate Bill 219 would allow RTD to buy insurance that would limit the liability of BNSF and the Union Pacific Railroad on all FasTracks lines...Full Article

03/06/07 - Sheridan Boulevard cuts delayed by RTD, Rocky Mountain News - One of the budget cuts RTD wants to make to the West Corridor FasTracks light-rail line got a five-week stay of execution Monday...Full Article

03/05/07 - Garcia : (not so) Light Rail on Union Pacific corridor best, North Denver News - One of the most vital tools of any urban expansion is transportation, and since the passage of the FasTracks initiative in 2004, the earlier Gold Line...Full Article

03/05/07 - Stapleton getting government office building, Rocky Mountain News - The GSA parcel is close to the Smith Road rail corridor that will be served by the FasTracks commuter rail in 2014 linking Downtown and Denver International...Full Article

03/01/07 - Northglenn to RTD: Don't stop, Rocky Mountain News - A light-rail train pulls into the Englewood FasTracks station, which the city has made a keystone for the redevelopment of the former Cinderella City mall....Full Article

02/08/07 - Taking aim at RTD, Rocky Mountain News - In addition, transit employment will surge over the next decade with the build-out of FasTracks, perhaps by 1500 more jobs. And while the light-rail work...Full Article

01/30/07 - Gold Line streetcars possible after rail snag, Denver Post -The $463 million Gold Line is one of six new rail lines in the Regional Transportation District's $4.7 billion FasTracks expansion...Full Article

01/24/07 - Ward 1 newsletter asks for community involvement, Your Hub Northglenn - The topic of this meeting is FasTracks. I am going to try to get some representatives from the EIS team as well as RTD representatives there...Full Article

01/23/07 - RTD board elects officers for 2007, Brighton Standard Blade -
Chairman Martinez has led the charge to bring an alternative fuel study to the district as well as implementing a DBE/SBE program for FasTracks that is...Full Article

01/13/07 - Costs haunt FasTracks, Rocky Mountain News - RTD is falling behind on key studies required for FasTracks and also is trying to figure out whether the rapid transit system can be built the way it was ...Full Article

01/01/07 - FasTracks Cuts Eyed, Rail Transit Online - Spiraling construction costs are forcing the Regional Transportation District to take a hard look at individual projects within the FastTracks rail transit expansion program, hoping to stay within budget. Full Article

12/20/06 - FasTracks plans falling behind, often by years, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, USA - Construction studies for the massive FasTracks transportation project are behind schedule as much as three years on one line and lagging on others, according ...Full Article

12/17/06 - Adams County planners eschew light rail for commuter rail - Denver Daily News, Denver, CO, USA - We have a certain budget to work within, as approved by the voters of FasTracks, and when we looked at light rail along I-25 and Washington and the tasking ...Full Article

12/15/06 - RTD FasTracks Present Results of Transit Alternatives Screening - Commerce City Gateway News, Commerce City, CO, USA - Full Article

12/13/06 - Freight rail urged for train line, Denver Post - Denver, CO, USA - Officials studied other routes for the train, which will be built as part of RTD's FasTracks plan, but rejected them because they would cost two or three times...Full Article

12/12/06 - Planners want heavy commuter trains, Rocky Mountain News - Denver, CO, USA - FasTracks planners say the only option that makes sense for rail transit from downtown through Adams County is to build heavy commuter rail on the existing...Full Article

12/06/06 - FasTracks team reaches out for citizen input, Commerce City Sentinel-Express - Commerce City, CO, USA - The FasTracks North Metro Corridor team sought comments Nov. 29 at Adams City High School on the results of the first two levels of analysis for transit alternatives to area residents...Full Article

12/01/06 - Rail plan for the north concerns residents, YourHub.com -
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11/28/06 - Diesel rail likely for North Metro, Denver Post - Denver, CO, USA -... in an existing freight corridor is the only train technology that likely would stay within RTD's $420 million budget for the north metro FasTracks rail line to ...Full Article