FasTracks West Corridor light rail construction progress report
By Kevin Flynn on February 15, 2010
The West Corridor light rail project is the first FasTracks rail corridor that RTD has under construction. Denver Transit Construction Group – a joint venture of Herzog Corp. of St. Joseph, Mo., and Stacy & Witbeck Inc. of Alameda, Calif. – has the 12-mile construction zone divided into three areas, and on Friday it gave an update on recent construction progress and a look-ahead to upcoming construction activities in Golden, Lakewood and Denver.
Most of the bridges are well under construction, including the longest bridge on the corridor, the S-shaped 1,600-foot light rail structure that will carry trains on a diagonal path over both Sixth Avenue Freeway and Indiana Avenue. Also well underway is the bridge over Colfax Avenue at Sixth Avenue, the Wadsworth Boulevard bridge and the Sixth Avenue Freeway bridge – a steel arch structure being assembled on the grounds of the Denver Federal Center.
In April, it will be placed over the freeway during a weekend traffic closure by sliding it across from south to north over the abutments.
You can view the report that was given to the corridor’s elected officials by clicking here.
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