July 21st, 2008
RTD nabbing more land?
From the Denver Daily News:
Even Denver Broncos head coach Mike Shanahan may be impacted by RTD’s FasTracks land acquisitions.
Property owners along the future 23.6-mile FasTracks commuter rail East Corridor between Denver Union Station and Denver International Airport could be facing unexpected land buy-outs or condemnations.
The Regional Transportation District will hold two public meetings this week to discuss the situation, which came about after the agency decided to locate its commuter rail maintenance facility at the Platte Division bus center at 31st Street and the South Platte River.
The original plan was to establish the maintenance facility at the Union Pacific 36th Street Yard maintenance facility. But FasTracks spokeswoman Pauletta Tonilas said an agreement with Union Pacific could not be reached because the rail transportation company wanted too much money. Because the rail maintenance facility is now planned for the current RTD bus maintenance facility at 31st Street, refinements in alignment are necessary and RTD may need to acquire parts or entire pieces of private property to make the corridor work.
