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Construction of Peña Bridge - March 2013

East Rail Line Update FasTracks Citizens Advisory Committee

Dec. 11, 2013

Courtesy of HDR, Inc, © 2013, Keith Philpott


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Kevin Flynn RTD Eagle Project Public Information Manager

East Rail Line Update

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Eagle P3 Project

• East Rail Line offers 35-minute travel time to DIA

• Northwest Rail Westminster Segment offers 11-minute travel time to

Westminster

• Gold Line offers 25-minute travel time to Ward Road

• Project capital budget $2.2 billion

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RTD Board Eagle Project Directors

Eagle Project Area

Bill James

District A – central Denver

Barbara Deadwyler

District B – east-northeast

Denver, DIA, north Aurora

Angie Malpiede

District C – northwest

Denver, DUS, Globeville

Larry Hoy

District J – Westminster

Lorraine Anderson

District L – southwest

Adams County, Arvada

Natalie Menten

District M – Wheat Ridge

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Eagle P3 Progress • 50 percent complete

• 28 of 32 bridges

under construction

(18 on East)

• 9 of 15 stations under

way (6 on East)

• Nearly 26 of 36 miles

under construction

• All 50 commuter rail

car body shells

complete, first 20 in

Philadelphia for

assembly and testing

Commuter rail vehicle at Hyundai Rotem plant in Philadelphia – October 2013

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Eagle P3 Progress

Unloading commuter

rail car body shell at

Port of Philadelphia,

Sept. 23, 2013

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Eagle P3 Progress

Design DBE Design SBE Construction DBE Construction SBE

Actual $18.0 $7.1 $96.8 $22.7

Commitments $19.1 $7.3 $164.7 $41.2

Goal $17.1 $3.0 $172.5 $43.2

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DBE/SBE Goals

Local/Disadvantaged/Small Business Participation

• $840 million dollars to 390 Colorado businesses

• $232 million to 160 D/SBE businesses

• WIN hiring: 43 local trainees hired on Eagle Project

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Upcoming Construction

East Rail Line – Work Areas

Josephine St. railroad crossing

Monaco Parkway at Smith Road

Quebec frontage at Smith Road

Smith Rd./Havana St. railroad

I-70 Flyover Bridge at Airport Blvd.

East Rail Upcoming Construction

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Proposed Station Names

38th & Blake

40th & Colorado

Central Park

Peoria

40th & Airport • Gateway Park (change)

Denver Airport (change)

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Concurrent Projects

Peoria Crossing

• Bridge piers and

abutments up

• Approach walls

underway

• Frontage Road

connections from

33rd and 39th

avenues

• Demolition along

the northbound

Peoria lanes

Aerial rendering of Peoria Street grade separation

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Concurrent Projects

DIA Hotel and Transit Center

• New detours on Terminal East public

roads in place until late 2014

• Terminal West detour closures to be

lifted this weekend

• Train platform canopy steel complete,

ironworkers now installing steel for

public plaza canopy

• Concrete work complete to Level 5

including public plaza

• Installation of exterior walls to begin

this month

Train platform plaza, hotel above

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Construction Progress

Commuter rail maintenance facility, November 2013

RTD commuter rail

maintenance facility

• 230,000-square foot,

four-level building will

house a staff of 240

• Yard storage for up to 80

vehicles

• When completed in 2014,

it will be a LEED Silver

Certified building

• Located at 5151 Fox St.,

in the Globeville

neighborhood of Denver

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Union Station CRT

Platform

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Smith Road

reconstruction,

Colorado Boulevard

to Kearney Street

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Overhead power pole

installation, Smith

Road

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Sandown Substation

transformer

installation

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Central Park Station

platform construction

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Track hardening

along Smith Road at

I-225

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Girder installation on

Interstate 70 Flyover

bridge, the longest

bridge on the project

at nearly 5,000 feet

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Airport/40th Station

platform construction

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Track installation and

joint welding, East Rail

Line at 64th Avenue

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East Rail Line track

along Peña

Transportation

Corridor curve

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E-470 Bridge, wide

enough for future

double-track, uses

direct-fixation track

over the highway for

a lighter structure

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Construction on 1,953-

foot Peña Boulevard

Bridge, East Rail Line

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Gantry used for direct

fixation track on Peña

Bridge

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Track installation along

78th Avenue, parallel to

Runway 7/25

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Rail underpass

beneath DIA east and

west terminal under

access roadway “X”

crossover

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DIA Station approach

and platform, looking

south

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Canopy construction

over the passenger

platform at DIA


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Construction of DIA Station Canopy, September 2013

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