Temporary Amtrak Station Information
Denver Union Station: Construction Doesn't Rest Over the Holidays
Downtown Growth Spurs Plan for Overnight Parking
Pedestrians Soon to Get Friendlier: Larimer, 14th
Union Gateway Bridge Opens
Feds put $424 million into FasTracks, Union Station
RTD Connecting Communities 2009 Video
Downtown Denver Connector Newsletter
Temporary Amtrak Station
January 7, 2010
Effective February 1, 2011, Amtrak service will relocate from the historic Denver Union Station to a temporary station located at 1800 21st St. (at the intersection of 21st St. and Wewatta St. behind Coors Field). Amtrak will return to DUS in spring 2014. Click here to see a large version of the map.
Denver Union Station: Construction Doesn't Rest Over the Holidays
November 16, 2010, Denver Union Station Project Authority
Temporary Amtrak Station
The temporary Amtrak Station's (at 2010 Delgany St., the corner of Wewatta St. and 21st St.) interior is complete. The move to the new facility will take place in January 2011 and service out of the new location will begin in February 2011. On the east side of Wewatta, work continues on the temporary Amtrak platform.
Regional Bus Facility
The underground bus facility will soon be completely covered. Between now and the end of the year, crews will complete girder placement, begin pouring the top slab, backfill walls and remove the shoring wall at the west end.
Light Rail Platform
Concrete for the new west Light Rail (LRT) platform adjacent to Consolidated Main Line (CML) freight tracks will be poured before Thanksgiving and sub-ballast and ballast will continue to be placed throughout the month of December. Canopy frames have been installed and now PTFE fabric will be placed on top of the frames. PTFE is the same fabric that the roof of DIA is made of.
Changes to Pedestrian Access
In December, the construction fence along 16th Street between the Millennium Bridge and Wewatta Street will be moved to the south directly adjacent to the LRT tracks. Pedestrians will have to use the sidewalk on the south side of 16th Street.
Downtown Growth Spurs Plan for Overnight Parking
October 28, 2010, Downtown 7 News
A proposal is being floated before city council to allow for overnight metered parking in the central business district and the lower Platte Valley. Overnight parking is geared towards helping current and future households live downtown.
Pedestrians soon to get friendlier: Larimer, 14th
October 20, 2010, The Denver Post
Construction is underway to remove a traffic lane and widen the sidewalk on Larimer Street between 15th and 17th Streets. The goal of the project is to make the street more pedestrian-friendly and to better connect 16th and 17th Streets to Larimer Square. The project is set to be complete by the end of 2010.
Union Gateway Bridge Opens
The pedestrian bridge at 18th Street in the Central Platte Valley – the Union Gateway Bridge -- will officially open on Friday, March 5, providing a second connecting point to Riverfront Park and Commons Park from Union Station and Lower Downtown. The bridge is a 170-foot long span with a copper-clad elevator tower at each end. It was financed by the Central Platte Valley Metropolitan District through mill levies on Central Platte Valley property owners east of the Consolidated Main Line (CML). Click here to read the story about the new bridge in the Denver Business Journal.
Feds put $424 million into FasTracks, Union Station
February 6, 2010, The Denver Post
The announcement of a $304 million federal loan Friday gave the green light to the redevelopment of Union Station as a major Front Range transportation hub. After at least six years of planning, the loan, guaranteed by the city and county of Denver, will let the $480 million project begin. "Union Station is going to happen," said a gleeful Phil Washington, newly appointed general manager of the Regional Transportation District. "All the funding is now in place."
RTD Connecting Communities 2009 Video
Five years into the FasTracks program and 2009 has been the most exciting year yet!
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