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12/4/2024
The Regional Transportation District of Denver (RTD) has issued a request for proposals from design-build teams interested in completing the remaining three phases of its downtown rail reconstruction project.
Proposals are due in February 2025; RTD intends to select a contractor in April. The value of the project to complete the final three phases is $152 million.
The first phase of the downtown rail reconstruction project began in May and focused on the 30-year-old infrastructure at five intersections in the downtown loop, RTD officials said in a press release. The process involved removing existing rail, concrete, ties and ballast before rebuilding the embedded track along RTD’s inaugural light rail line.
The first phase was completed ahead of schedule in September, leading RTD to seek early proposals for the other phases in the form of design-build contracts, RTD officials said. Work on each phase, which will begin in 2025, may occur simultaneously. Phases include work on the midblock of the downtown loop, Colfax Avenue and the Welton Street corridor.
Similar to the first phase in 2024, all D and H Line trains will be rerouted to Denver Union Station during the reconstruction work. The L Line, which connects 30th & Downing Station to the downtown loop, will be temporarily suspended. No light rail service will operate in RTD’s central corridor until the reconstruction project has been fully completed.