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FasTracks Activity Begins/CSU Transit Center Earns LEED Gold/CDOT Begins Major Paving Projects
RTD Celebrates First FasTracks Construction
Signs of progress are now visible on the West Corridor of Regional Transportation District’s FasTracks transit expansion program.
In May, RTD kicked off what will be a decade of construction on the nation’s largest transit expansion program. The agency marked the first FasTracks construction activity with a ceremonial event that launched the removal of the old Associated Railroad trolley tracks along the West Corridor, the first portion of FasTracks to be built.
Removing the tracks will make way for utility relocations that must happen before the start of West Corridor general construction. Track removal begins at 13th Avenue and Quail Street and moves east, taking approximately four months.
In mid-June, Xcel Energy began relocating its utility lines. Qwest and Comcast will follow Xcel’s utilities relocations.
Denver Transit Construction Group is the construction contractor for the West Corridor light rail, a 12.1-mi. project that will operate between the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver and the Jefferson County Government Center in Golden.
CSU Transit Center Earns LEED Gold Certification
The U.S. Green Building Council recognized the Transit Center expansion at Colorado State University’s Lory Student Center with LEED–New Construction (version 2.1) gold certification this spring.
The renovation of the north entrance to the Lory Student Center was a collaborative project between the city and university that provided Transfort riders with indoor space to wait for buses, a Transfort office, information desk, convenience store and space for RamRide, which offers students rides home from nightclubs.
The Federal Transportation Authority renovation added 14,458 sq ft of new space and revamped 7,749 sq ft of existing space.
The CSU Transit Center project team included CSU Facilities, the city of Fort Collins, Coover-Clark & Associates, Mark Young Construction, S.A. Miro, BCER Engineering Inc. and the Institute for the Built Environment.
During the project’s design and construction, several CSU classes conducted activities related to the green building features, including student journalism and awareness campaigns, temporary signage along the construction boundary fence, a Web site tracking construction progress and student involvement in LEED coordination and documentation.
Highway 145 Construction at Keystone Hill in Full Swing
Construction is in full swing on the Keystone Hill project, located five mi. west of Telluride on State Highway 145 (mile marker 72 and 73) in San Miguel County.
Recent progress ensures that the $11.4-million project will remain on schedule for completion this fall.
Contractor Kiewit Western Co. resumed building on soil nail walls and micropiles during the first month of this year’s construction season. In May, the project team focused on completing the soil nail walls, micropiles, drainage installation and construction of mechanically stabilized earth retaining walls.
The project includes construction of a climbing lane at Keystone Hill. The three-quarter-mi. work zone is about five mi. west of the Telluride. Crews are also constructing six-ft-wide shoulders and seven retaining walls, drainage and guardrail improvements.
CDOT Starts I-25 Resurfacing Project in Douglas County
The Colorado Department of Transportation began in May a four-mi. paving project on Interstate 25 between Larkspur and the Tomah Road area in Douglas County.
In addition to asphalt paving, the work will include rotomilling, installation of new bridge expansion joints, additional bridge improvements and striping. Greenland Road, below I-25 at Exit 167, will be paved too.
The project will also include installation of an anti-icing system on three southbound bridges—over East Plum Creek, the Union Pacific Railroad and Upper Lake Gulch Road. This will allow deicers to be applied to the bridges remotely by CDOT’s maintenance department or as determined by sensors within the road surface. Spray discs will be located outside the travel lanes and apply deicer as needed.
Lafarge West Inc. of Fort Collins is the contractor for the $4.9-million project, scheduled for completion in September.
ABCO Completes Bridge Deck Rehab Project for CDOT
CDOT wrapped up a bridge deck rehabilitation project early this summer by reopening all lanes of Interstate 76 over the Union Pacific Railroad near U.S. Highway 85. ABCO Contracting Co. Inc. was the contractor for the $1.1-million project.
The bridge deck on I-76 was the last bridge deck of three to be rehabilitated as part of this project. The other two were Simms/Union over U.S. Highway 6 in Lakewood and State Highway 58 over Ford Street in Golden.
The bridge deck rehabilitation consisted of rotomilling existing asphalt, removing deteriorated concrete, replacing the bridge deck with new concrete, plus paving and striping.
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