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RTD outlines multi‑phase reconstruction of original light‑rail line, warns of service impacts
Summary
Regional Transportation District officials told Denver's Land Use, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that crews completed intersection repairs last summer and plan multi‑phase, full‑depth track reconstructions downtown and on Colfax and Wilton corridors, funded in part by congressional earmarks; work will affect D, H and L line service.
Denver ' Regional Transportation District leaders on Jan. 21 told the Denver City Council's Land Use, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that they are undertaking multi‑phase, full‑depth reconstruction of the agency's original light‑rail alignment to restore the system to a state of good repair.
The reconstruction follows inspections that showed rail ties and embedded track had shifted beneath busy intersections because of decades of surface traffic, RTD General Manager and CEO Deborah Johnson said. "We basically undertook a reconstruction of the original rail line," Johnson said, and staff completed work at several downtown intersections last summer.
RTD described the work completed and planned this way: an initial phase addressed vulnerable downtown intersections (Stout and 15th, California and 15th,…
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