Aurora committee advances operations-and-maintenance IGA with RTD for East Colfax BRT

The Transportation, Airports and Public Works task committee voted to forward to the next study session a resolution to approve an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) between the City of Aurora and the Regional Transportation District (RTD) that defines operations and maintenance responsibilities for the East Colfax Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project.

Carly Campos, deputy director of transportation and mobility in Aurora’s Public Works Department, presented the IGA and a project update. Campos said the corridor runs from Downtown Denver’s Union Station through Denver and into Aurora, ending at Interstate 225, and that the project is a regional partnership among Aurora, the City and County of Denver, RTD and the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). She said the project received a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant of $150,000,000 to fund roughly half of the work.

The IGA presented to the committee covers roles and responsibilities for upkeep and technology after construction is complete. "The IGA is between us and RTD," Campos said. "Aurora will maintain the enhanced shelters at Colfax and Havana and RTD maintains basically all other stations and the technology elements since those are integrated with their system." She added the IGA does not move funding between agencies; it defines…