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The G Line, also known as the Gold Line during construction, [1] is a Regional Transportation District (RTD) electric commuter rail line between Denver Union Station and Wheat Ridge, Colorado. [2] Long scheduled to open in October 2016, the opening was delayed until mid-2019.
FasTracks is a twelve-year, $6.9 billion public transportation expansion developed by the Regional Transportation District and currently underway. [14] [28] The plan called for six new lines: light rail, diesel commuter rail, and electric commuter rail lines with a combined length of 122 miles (196 km) to be opened between 2013 and 2017. [28]
The first 13 miles (21 km) from downtown Denver to 124th Avenue in Thornton opened as part of the FasTracks expansion plan on September 21, 2020. [1] When fully built out the line will be 18.5 miles (29.8 km) long and pass through Denver, Commerce City , Northglenn , and Thornton . [ 3 ]
Bus service in Denver dates back to 1924, when Denver Tramway began the first bus between Englewood and Fort Logan.Buses had completely replaced the previously expansive streetcar system in metro Denver by 1950, and the privately owned Denver Tramway served the City and County of Denver, as well as older portions of Arvada, Aurora, Englewood, Golden, Lakewood, Westminster, and Wheat Ridge and ...
The east–west avenues, originally named, were first numbered in 1871, with modern East 35th Avenue designated First Avenue; however, this system was abandoned in 1886, when the city passed an ordinance linking avenue numbers to the street numbers of the diagonal grid. Where a numbered street met an avenue at Broadway, the avenue was given the ...
18th & California and 18th & Stout stations (sometimes styled as 18th•California and 18th•Stout) are a pair of light rail stations in Downtown Denver, Colorado, United States. It is served by the D , H , and L lines, operated by the Regional Transportation District (RTD), and was opened on October 8, 1994.
Plans to resurrect a railway line from Denver to Golden were advanced in the mid-1970s and in the 1980s RTD purchased the right-of-way to an unused rail corridor between the two cities. [3] A study conducted in 1997 stated the need for a rapid transit corridor through the region, and settled on 13th Avenue as the locally preferred alternative.
Denver Union Station underwent $200 million worth of facility improvements to turn it into the hub for new commuter and light rail lines as well as bus service in downtown Denver. The underground 22-bay bus concourse at Union Station opened on May 11, 2014, while the restaurants, bars, and hotel officially opened July 26, 2014.