City council advances Mineral Mobility East contract after public criticism over concrete Railroad Spur Trail

A Littleton City Council majority voted 5-1 to advance a contract the council described as the Mineral Mobility East Improvement Project, which includes work on Mineral Avenue and paving the Mill Avenue Trail (also called the Railroad Spur Trail) at a cost residents described as about $1,000,000.

The decision drew public comment at the Transportation Mobility Board (TMB) meeting, where several residents urged changes. "We feel the city's presentation stretched the truth or ignored the truth in quite a few places," said Steve Lowry of District 3, who told the TMB that two former TMB officers had submitted letters of support to Arapahoe County Open Space during a 2023 grant application for the project. Lowry and other speakers said the paving plan would convert sections of a soft-surface recreation trail through Jackass Gulch into a concrete path used by commuters, and that change would displace…