Finishing FasTracks
2025 ReportFasTracks is a voter-approved, multi-billion-dollar transit expansion program launched in 2004 to improve mobility across the Denver metro area. Led by RTD, FasTracks set out to build more than 120 miles of new commuter rail and light rail, nearly 20 miles of bus rapid transit, and dozens of new transit hubs and park-n-rides. Over the last 20 years, FasTracks has delivered several high-profile extension projects and connections.
While FasTracks has significantly expanded transit access and reshaped regional connectivity, it has also faced challenges with funding shortfalls, cost escalations, and delayed timelines, leaving some corridors waiting for completion.
Finishing FasTracks
Senate Bill 24-230, titled “Concerning Support for Statewide Remediation Services that Positively Impact the Environment,” (SB-230) required, among other things, RTD to prioritize the completion of the Northwest Rail (B Line) and the North Metro (N Line) corridors of the 2004 voter-approved FasTracks Plan. Additionally, the legislation required RTD to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly by July 1, 2025, demonstrating how RTD will complete the Plan’s unfinished corridors by 2034. That legislation was amended by Senate Bill 25-161, titled “Transit Reform” (SB-161), to require RTD to include additional financial information in the report to the Governor and General Assembly while extending the report’s submittal deadline to December 1, 2025.
RTD's 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report includes the following information:
- Updated capital and operating costs to reflect inflation
- Revenue projections and fiscal capacity for the program completion
- A discussion of new challenges impacting project implementation
- Summary of public outreach and meetings
- Public and stakeholder comments
- Earned media report
- Previous reports and related documents