A Conservative Perspective on Transit
As FasTracks sorts through its financial challenges and as FasTracks lines get built out (including our own West Corridor line) over the next few years, I suspect we’ll see sustained coverage of the...
View ArticleRTD Releases 2010 FasTracks Financial Evaluation
RTD today released its new annual financial evaluation for the FasTracks program. Although RTD’s original projections seemed very reasonable at the time and earned the support of multiple independent...
View ArticleWest Corridor Light Rail Construction Update
The latest update from RTD on West Corridor light rail construction between the Taj and the Federal Center: Work on walls and drainage continues near I-70. Light rail bridge construction (pouring...
View ArticleBridge Project Road Closures: 7th Place over Tucker Gulch and 6th Ave. at...
All westbound lanes of 6th Ave. on either side of Indiana St. are scheduled to close starting at 9:00 p.m. this Thursday night (May 13) and remain closed until 5:30 a.m. on Friday morning (May 14)....
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West Corridor and FasTracks Update
West Corridor bridge over 6th Avenue at Indiana (RTD Photo) RTD and some of the polling folks involved with FasTracks provided an in-depth briefing yesterday morning at the Metro Mayors Caucus meeting....
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City Council Adopts 2011 Priorities
On Thursday night City Council formally adopted priorities for 2011. This is generally a continuation of the priorities we established last year, but it’s worth formally identifying them to help us...
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Golden Secures Federal Funding: Pedestrian Bridge Over U.S. 6 and Golden’s...
Looking across U.S. 6 at the new under-construction light rail station from the Golden Ridge side. The construction site at the Jefferson County building: the new light rail line and station. Some...
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Keeping “Golden” in Our New Light Rail Station Name
The Jeffco end-of-line station (RTD photo).I come across a lot of head-scratchers, but this one stands out. The Jefferson County Commissioners are insisting on naming the new light rail station...
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Radio Golden is Live
Today we launched Radio Golden, an every-other-week-or-so podcast on news and politics here in Golden and Jeffco. For now, you can download the mp3 files from the RadioGolden.net website, or you can...
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Golden Companies Win Awards, and a FasTracks Train Test on the West Corridor
RTD photo.Mayor Sloan wrote about a few things of interest in her newsletter on Friday: Kudos to ERA and PharmaJet, two Golden-based companies that were recognized with Industry Awards by the Jefferson...
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