FasTracks price tag swells

RTD braces for another increase due next month
By Kevin Flynn
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
 
RTD is bracing for another increase in the FasTracks program cost to be released next month, based on the new budget for just one of the projects approved Tuesday night.
With the West Corridor light rail’s new budget approved for an increase of 11.5 [...]

Cost of light rail spikes again

WEST CORRIDOR
By Jeffrey Leib
The Denver Post
The cost of the light-rail line to Lakewood and Golden has jumped to $707.6 million from $634.7 million just a year ago, RTD officials said Tuesday night.
The increase is largely caused by a nearly $80 million escalation in construction labor and material costs and is leading the Regional Transportation District [...]

Lakewood sure has arrived

In its designs for a light-rail station, one city sees an opportunity for riders to sit up and notice that
By Ann Schrader
The Denver Post
LAKEWOOD — Plain vanilla doesn’t cut it for Lakewood, which has an ice-cream-sundae vision for the Wadsworth Boulevard light-rail station.
Oak Street — the next station to the west on the 12.1-mile West [...]

Reward rather than award given to RTD

Honored for politics
Independence Institute, Colorado Libertarian Think Tank
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Recently, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) named Denver’s RTD the best transit agency in America. RTD is to be congratulated for receiving this award, but I have to ask, just what criteria did APTA use to bestow this honor?
Was it RTD’s ability to attract [...]

Win some, lose some

Denver able to sway statehouse on key issues
Carol Boigon, Denver City Councilwoman
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
During the 120-day state legislative session, laws are proposed that can greatly affect Denver residents. 
As chairperson of City Council’s General Government Committee, I oversee a process for reviewing proposed legislation, and, with the mayor’s office and the committee, I direct the [...]