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Originally Posted by SnyderBock
I think everyone is hopeful that Denver will get it's Colfax Streetcar starter line built, sometime this decade. FasTacks provides the meas to get commuters into and out of downtown. The next step, will be a transit system for getting the residents who live in and around downtown, around Denver's urban core, and/or to get commuters coming into downtown, closer to their actual destinations. This will likely be accomplished with a combination of expanded free downtown shuttle busses which have low floors, double slidding doors for quick boarding and exisiting (aka just like the Free 16th Street Mall shuttle and the soon to be launched downtown circulator).
How much has all of Salt Lake City's Light Rail and Commuter Rail cost to construct?
Since 1994, when Denver opened it's first Light Rail line, there has been well over $1 billion spent on Light Rail, before FasTracks. FasTracks is adding in another $7.8 billion in Light Rail, EMUDMU and BRT construction. So we're looking at $9 billion of mass transit investments since 1994.
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Haha, it took me a while to do it, but I located all the info. It looks like UTA's LRT, CR, BRT, and Streetcar projects put the Wasatch Front Metropolitan Area (2.2 million people) at about
$3.5 billion in transit investments since 1997.
I think we're in the same boat as you guys; we're excited to have a better regional transit system, but more excited to focus on improving transit where people live in the city.
Lines Under Construction and Prices Will Likely Come in Lower
Sugar House Streetcar - Distance: 2 miles, Cost: 55.5 million
Airport Line LRT - Distance: 6 miles, Cost: 290 million
Draper Line LRT - Distance: 3.8 miles, Cost: 206 million
FrontRunner South CR - Distance 44 miles, Cost: 850 million
Total: $1,401,000,000
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Completed Lines
Mid-Jordan Line LRT - Distance: 10.6 miles, Cost: 535 million
West Valley Line LRT - Distance: 5.1 miles, Cost: 370 million
Magna BRT - Distance: 1 mile, Cost: 8 million
FrontRunner North CR - Distance 38.15 miles, Cost: 611 million
Intermodel Hub Extension LRT - Distance 0.9 miles, Cost: unknown to me (probably slightly under 50 million).
Medical Center Extension LRT - Distance 1.5 miles, Cost: 89.4 million
University Line LRT - Distance 2.54 miles, Cost 118 million
Original Main Street Line LRT - Distance 15 miles, Cost 312 million
Total: $2,093,400,000