SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR, RTD LIGHT RAIL
Denver, Colorado
The Southwest Corridor light rail line opened in July 2000 as an 8.7-mile extension from I-25/Broadway to Mineral Avenue in Littleton. The Southwest Corridor has five stations with nearly 2,600 parking spaces. A number of enhancements are proposed as part of FasTracks to make the Southwest line even more successful. Enhancements include improving existing stations so that they can accommodate four-car trains, adding a total of 440 parking spaces at the Englewood
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Station, and extending the line south from Mineral Avenue to Lucent Boulevard in Highlands Ranch with a new station at C-470/Lucent Boulevard with 1,000 new parking spaces. Finally, a new station will be added in Englewood at Bates Avenue when a new planned development is constructed. For this project, Vision Land Consultants provided preliminary hydrologic information for a drainage analysis. The study included mapping of drainage basins and determining runoff coefficients associated with 8 miles of light rail or freight railroad terrain in the southwest Denver metropolitan area.
Client: RTD
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