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BOARD APPROVES $17 MILLION FOR LONGMONT STATION
A remaining $305 million in short-term funds is available for project either not yet in construction or under contract. The RTD Board decided that the most technically feasible way to use these funds is the following:
  • U.S. 36 Bus Rapid Transit - Complete managed lanes to Interlocken ($90
  • million)
  • North Metro Rail Line- Complete from DUS to Stock Show Complex ($90
  • million)
  • I-225 Rail Line - Complete from Nine-Mile to Iliff ($90 million)
  • Northwest Rail Line - Complete Longmont Station ($17 million)
  • Central Rail Extension - Additional technical analysis ($0.5 million)
  • Southeast Rail Extension - Final design & federal environmental process ($9 million)
  • Southwest Rail Extension - Relocate Union Pacific Railroad track ($8.5
  • million)
For a fact sheet on the projects funded by the $305 million, click here.

FIRST SEGMENT OF THE NORTHWEST RAIL LINE INCLUDED IN EAGLE P3 PROJECT
The first segment of the Northwest Rail Line, from Denver Union Station to south Westminster, will be built as part of the Eagle P3 project. This project is anticipated to begin construction in late 2011 and will open to the public in 2016.

Click here for more information about the Eagle P3 project.

RELEASE OF THE NORTHWEST RAIL LINE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION

Since 2007, the Regional Transportation District (RTD) has been studying the impacts of providing rail service from Denver to Longmont in the Northwest Rail Environmental Evaluation (EE) as part of the voter-approved RTD FasTracks Program. Northwest Rail  Line (NWR) is a proposed 41-mile commuter rail line from Denver Union Station to Longmont passing through North Denver, Adams County, Westminster, Broomfield, Louisville and Boulder.

RTD is now releasing the NWR Final EE to the public. The release of the document concludes the environmental study and planning phase for this project. This action allows the project to move towards final design, construction, and operation as funding becomes available for the FasTracks Program.

As the project advances, RTD will continue to work with local, state and federal agencies, local jurisdictions, stakeholder groups and members of the general public along the Northwest Rail Line to address issues or concerns relating to this project.

NWR Project website:       www.rtd-fastracks.com
RTD FasTracks Hotline:     303.299.2000
E-mail:                               
Northwest Rail Liaison:      Liz Viscardi 303.299.6908

Thank you for your continued interest in the Northwest Rail project. For more information about RTD FasTracks and to find out about the progress being made on other projects visit www.rtd-fastracks.com.

Si usted tiene preguntas, o para información en español sobre este proyecto, por favor llamar al 720.936.1769.




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