Southeast Corridor Light Rail Line

The transportation industry has become an ever changing and exciting field. RTD has paralleled the industry by diversifying over the past decade with the introduction of light rail to the City of Denver. RTD's Light Rail has one of, if not the most enviable record of any major transit agency in the country when it comes to effective project management in building light rail. Namely, RTD will soon be able to say that we have built two consecutive light rail lines on time and within budget. When RTD opened the Central Corridor Light Rail Line through downtown Denver in 1994, many would-be critics were silenced when we showed definitively that a light rail line can be opened on time and on budget. Further, we demonstrated that light rail in Denver could not only meet, but could substantially exceed opening day ridership projections, The fact that ridership has continued to exceed projections some five years later in a further testament to the success that we have engineered.

The Southeast Corridor light rail line will serve the most congested corridor in the entire state, providing a much-needed alternative to driving a single occupant auto. Stretching from the current terminus at I-25 and Broadway south along I-25 to Lincoln Avenue in Douglas County, with a spur on I-25 to Parker Road, the plan for this corridor also calls for widening of the highway along I-25. This represent the first time that RTD and The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will jointly develop a corridor involving light rail and highway widening.

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Southeast Corridor Facts

Project Overview

• Multimodal light rail and highway project
  • I-25 to Lincoln
  • I-225 to Parker Road
• 19 miles of improvements
• park-n-Ride and feeder bus service to stations
• Additional vehicles for operation

Project Cost

• Estimated Cost in 1998 dollars -$728 million
  • $665 million in construction
  • $50 million in right-of way acquisition
  • $20 million in project oversight
  • $3 million in design build preparation
• Estimated project cost (year-of expenditure dollars -$874 million
• Prior RTD expenditures in corridor (possible overmatch) $7.5 million

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Project Schedule

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