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Source: www.indenvertimes.com
By Kevin Flynn on March 23, 2010
The North Metro commuter rail corridor through the heart of Adams County will be proposed as a single-track line but with five strategically placed double-tracked segments that will allow RTD to slash costs while retaining the capability for 15-minute service on this FasTracks corridor.
The refinement to the corridor, the second-most expensive and third-longest rail line in the FasTracks rapid transit program, is contained in the Final Environmental Impact Statement, which will be voted on Tuesday night by the RTD board for public release and comment.
The 18-mile corridor serves Denver, Commerce City, Northglenn and Thornton, between Denver Union Station and 162nd Avenue, north of CO 7 and Colorado Boulevard.
The North Metro Corridor’s cost has been reduced from a high of $1.065 billion two years ago to the current working estimate of $909.8 million – a nearly 15 percent drop due in great part to RTD’s review of every corridor from the bottom up. New General Manager Phil Washington ordered the zero-based budgeting review to determine the least-cost way of getting all the corridors built while still serving all of the communities along them.
In the case of North Metro, planners found that they could build a system that mostly uses a single track for both northbound and southbound trains if they included five two-track passing segments and coordinated the schedules, allowing trains in opposing directions to pass without delays. Two of the double-track segments are at the north and south ends, and three are in the middle of the line. They are from south of 72nd Avenue to around 74th Avenue, from north of Thornton Parkway to just north of 104th Avenue, and from south of 124th Avenue to before the York Street crossing south of 136th Avenue.
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