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5 buyers · 23 tenders · checked 2026-10-03

Front Range Rail Starter Service ($332m, 2029) and Full Service ($1.7bn, ballot Nov 3); RTD Central Corridor rebuild ($125m) plus track work.

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$332m Colorado Connector Starter Service capital and $1.7bn Full Service capital in the district's Delivery Plan; $1,599.3m to finish RTD's four unfinished FasTracks corridors as costed in its 2025 statutory report, against $443m of identified funding; $125m Downtown Rail Reconstruction progressive design-build at RTD, inside a $223.6m 2026 new capital programme and $379.8m carried forward
Technology areas
Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Rolling-stock hardware, Electrification, Digital operations, Predictive maintenance, Cybersecurity, AI inspection

Key figures

RTD light rail at March 2025: s…6 lines, 200 vehicles, 57 stationsRTD light rail at March 2025: six lines, 200 vehicles, more than 60 miles of track and 57 stations, the oldest segment being the 5.3-mile Central Corridor opened 7 October 1994
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Book, adopted by the Board on 2 December 2025 — At a Glance, capital expenditures table, comparative cash flow, debt service obligations, appendix Capital Carryforward (published 2025-12-18 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Operations, Safety, and Security Committee agenda packet, 13 May 2026 — Downtown Rail Reconstruction Project Update discussion item and DRRP presentation (packet pages 69 to 83) (published 2026-05-13 · checked 2026-09-14)
RTD commuter rail at March 2025…4 lines, 66 vehicles, 27 stationsRTD commuter rail at March 2025: the A, B, G and N Lines, 66 vehicles, more than 54 miles of track and 27 stations; the A and G Lines and the built section of the B Line were delivered under the EAGLE public-private partnership concession, the N Line opened 21 September 2020
1 source · primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Book, adopted by the Board on 2 December 2025 — At a Glance, capital expenditures table, comparative cash flow, debt service obligations, appendix Capital Carryforward (published 2025-12-18 · checked 2026-09-14)
RTD's FY2026 total expenditure…$1.907 billionRTD's FY2026 total expenditure appropriation approved by the Board on 2 December 2025: $1,113.232m operating expense, $190.636m debt service, $223.583m new capital and $379.761m capital carried forward. The agenda published for the Finance and Planning Committee meeting of 15 September 2026 carries a recommended action to adopt a 2026 budget amendment increasing the 2026 Amended Budget by $8.1 million to $1,121.3 million
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Book, adopted by the Board on 2 December 2025 — At a Glance, capital expenditures table, comparative cash flow, debt service obligations, appendix Capital Carryforward (published 2025-12-18 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Finance and Planning Committee — agenda and packet published ahead of the meeting of 15 September 2026, carrying 2026 Budget Amendment increasing the 2026 Amended Budget by $8.1m to $1,121.3m; 2027-2031 Five-Year Financial Forecast; 2027 Budget Development Update with the 2027-2031 Capital Investment Plan and the 2026 Transit Asset Management Plan (published 2026-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
RTD's 2026 new capital programme$223,583,586 of new capitalRTD's 2026 new capital programme, whose three largest rail lines are Central Corridor Track $70,211,688, Southwest Corridor Track $57,368,240 and Central Corridor TPS $22,000,000; the comparative cash flow table budgets $603,344 thousand of capital expenditure in 2026 against $361,146 thousand adopted for 2025, a 67.1 per cent increase, because it includes the carried-forward appropriation as well
1 source · primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Book, adopted by the Board on 2 December 2025 — At a Glance, capital expenditures table, comparative cash flow, debt service obligations, appendix Capital Carryforward (published 2025-12-18 · checked 2026-09-14)
RTD's previously approved capit…$379,761 thousand carried forwardRTD's previously approved capital carried into 2026: $374,972,709 in the base table, whose largest line is Downtown Track Repl 2024 at $141,995,989, and $4,788,363 in the FasTracks table, which is now closeout money — Northwest Rail $200,000, East Corridor $107,686, Gold Line $738,701, I-225 Operations Enhancements $1,760,514, I-225 R-Line Auto Train Stop $993,871, Commuter Rail capital equipment $19,503 and North Metro Commuter Rail maintenance equipment $968,088
1 source · primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Book, adopted by the Board on 2 December 2025 — At a Glance, capital expenditures table, comparative cash flow, debt service obligations, appendix Capital Carryforward (published 2025-12-18 · checked 2026-09-14)
RTD's public-private partnershi…$43,140,456 in 2026RTD's public-private partnership debt service for the EAGLE Project concessionaire agreement in 2026, inside a published schedule that runs to 2044 and peaks at $95,939,624 in 2035; total debt service across all obligations is $247,912,464 in 2026. The budget column is headed P3 TABOR and is the debt-service portion of the concession payment only — the 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report records that the monthly payment to the concessionaire has two parts, a fixed TABOR portion covering debt service on the $398 million of Private Activity Bonds the concessionaire issued, and a monthly service payment for operations and maintenance that sits in purchased transportation and moves with Memorandums of Relief and CPI
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Book, adopted by the Board on 2 December 2025 — At a Glance, capital expenditures table, comparative cash flow, debt service obligations, appendix Capital Carryforward (published 2025-12-18 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report, 216 pages, cover-dated 24 November 2025 — RTD's report to the Governor and the General Assembly required by Senate Bill 24-230 as amended by Senate Bill 25-161: capital and annual operating costs and 2045 daily boardings for the four unfinished corridors (pp. 5, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 29), original programme spend by project (p. 13), the Denver Transit Partners Private Activity Bonds and the two parts of the concession payment (p. 24), and the identified funding and remaining funding gap (pp. 6, 28) (published 2025-11-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
RTD rail on-time performance fo…90.66% light rail, 92.12% A/B/G, 97.12% N LineRTD rail on-time performance for June 2026, with year-to-date figures of 90.23 per cent for light rail, 93.99 per cent for the A, B and G Lines and 97.17 per cent for the N Line; service availability was 99.10 per cent, 98.85 per cent and 97.32 per cent. Light rail vehicles ran 26,094 miles between failures against a goal of more than 26,000, while maintenance of way recorded 1,303 hours between power and signal failures against a goal of more than 2,500
1 source · primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Rail Operations – June 2026 board briefing: on-time performance, service availability, mean distance between failures, preventable accidents, operator headcount (published 2026-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
RTD light rail operator headcou…33 light rail operator vacancies, 15.21%RTD light rail operator headcount in June 2026: 217 budgeted against 184 current, a vacancy ratio of 15.21 per cent, with 31 hired and 33 separated year to date against 70 and 53 over the same period in 2025
1 source · primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Rail Operations – June 2026 board briefing: on-time performance, service availability, mean distance between failures, preventable accidents, operator headcount (published 2026-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
RTD system boardings as publish…65,233,000 boardings in 2024RTD system boardings as published in the FY2026 Budget Book: 52,617,000 in 2020, 49,033,000 in 2021, 61,603,000 in 2022, 65,175,000 in 2023, 65,233,000 in 2024 and 42,516,000 in the January-to-August period of 2025. FLAG: the 2024 row of the same page's monthly breakdown prints a row total of 60,151 thousand, while the twelve monthly cells in that row sum to 65,227 thousand and the headline box reads 65,233,000; all three figures are recorded rather than reconciled
1 source · primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Book, adopted by the Board on 2 December 2025 — At a Glance, capital expenditures table, comparative cash flow, debt service obligations, appendix Capital Carryforward (published 2025-12-18 · checked 2026-09-14)
Front Range Passenger Rail Dist…$295,000,000 a year and $580,000,000 of debtFront Range Passenger Rail District Ballot Issue 7A at the election of 3 November 2026: taxes increased $295,000,000 annually through a 0.333% sales and use tax, debt increased $580,000,000 with a total repayment cost of $785,000,000 and a maximum annual repayment cost of $35,000,000, to construct, operate and maintain the Colorado Connector. The district's current bonded debt principal outstanding is $0
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Front Range Passenger Rail District (FRPRD) · Notice of Election to Increase Taxes and Increase Debt on a Referred Measure — Ballot Issue 7A, election of 3 November 2026, with the ballot text and the district's fiscal information table (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Front Range Passenger Rail District (FRPRD) · Resolution No. 2026-32 adopting a resolution to submit a ballot question to the registered electors of the district at the November 2026 general election, 5 pages (published 2026-08-28 · checked 2026-09-14)
Front Range Passenger Rail Dist…$13,424,784 in 2025Front Range Passenger Rail District fiscal year spending as published in its notice of election: $83,136 in 2022, $1,470,744 in 2023, $3,569,335 in 2024 and $13,424,784 in 2025 actual, $6,544,584 estimated for 2026, $144,000,000 estimated for the first partial fiscal year of 2027 and $295,000,000 for the first full fiscal year of 2028, against estimated first-full-year spending without the increase of $100,000
1 source · primary
  • ● Front Range Passenger Rail District (FRPRD) · Notice of Election to Increase Taxes and Increase Debt on a Referred Measure — Ballot Issue 7A, election of 3 November 2026, with the ballot text and the district's fiscal information table (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
The Colorado Connector as the d…190 miles, 12 communitiesThe Colorado Connector as the district's Delivery Plan describes it: 190 miles from Fort Collins to Pueblo across twelve Front Range communities, beginning with three daily round trips over 69 miles between Denver and Fort Collins in 2029 and reaching every station within five years of new voter-approved funding, toward up to ten daily round trips between Denver and Fort Collins and eight between Denver and Pueblo over a roughly 20-year horizon
1 source · primary
  • ● Front Range Passenger Rail District (FRPRD) · Delivery Plan — Colorado Connector, 31 August 2026 final, 81 pages: phasing, partners, Starter Service and Full Service capital and operating costs and funding sources (published 2026-08-31 · checked 2026-09-14)
Colorado's freight rail network…2,545 route miles, 13 railroadsColorado's freight rail network in the 2024 state rail plan: thirteen privately owned freight rail companies over 2,545 route miles, comprising two Class I railroads (BNSF and Union Pacific, which together own and operate over 1,968 miles), three Class II regional railroads (Kansas & Oklahoma, Kyle, and Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado) and eight Class III short lines. Union Pacific invested more than $253 million in its Colorado infrastructure between 2018 and 2022. STRACNET, the defense rail network, includes 1,080 miles of track in the state
1 source · primary
  • ● Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) · 2024 Colorado Freight and Passenger Rail Plan, adopted by the Transportation Commission 15 February 2024, 185 pages — network inventory, Amtrak services, state-funded rail investment tables and proposed corridor improvements (published 2024-05-01 · checked 2026-09-14)
Amtrak is the only provider of…190,587 passengers in 2022Amtrak is the only provider of intercity passenger rail service in Colorado. Ridership on its Colorado routes was 226,364 in 2015 and 270,232 in 2019, fell to 114,529 in 2021 and recovered to 190,587 in 2022. The California Zephyr runs daily Chicago to San Francisco with stops at Fort Morgan, Denver, Fraser/Winter Park, Granby, Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction; the Southwest Chief runs daily Chicago to Los Angeles with Colorado stops at Lamar, La Junta and Trinidad; the Winter Park Express is a seasonal service operated in partnership with Winter Park Resort from Denver Union Station. Amtrak invested $1,855,343 in Colorado stations between 2012 and 2022
1 source · primary
  • ● Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) · 2024 Colorado Freight and Passenger Rail Plan, adopted by the Transportation Commission 15 February 2024, 185 pages — network inventory, Amtrak services, state-funded rail investment tables and proposed corridor improvements (published 2024-05-01 · checked 2026-09-14)
The Federal Transit Administrat…two Colorado projects, both busThe Federal Transit Administration's Capital Investment Grants dashboard of current CIG and Expedited Project Delivery projects lists two Colorado entries on 14 September 2026 — Denver's Federal Boulevard BRT Project and Fort Collins' West Elizabeth Corridor, both in Small Starts project development. Neither is rail, and no Colorado rail project appears anywhere in the table
1 source · primary
  • ● Federal Transit Administration (FTA) · Current Capital Investment Grants Program and Expedited Project Delivery Pilot Program Projects — table of projects by state, city, project name and stage of development (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
FRA's Corridor ID Obligation St…$500,000, Step 2 via a CRISI grantFRA's Corridor ID Obligation Status Report last updated 31 March 2026 records the Colorado Front Range Corridor with the Front Range Passenger Rail District as sponsor: the Step 1 Obligation Date column reads 'Skipped Step 1' and the Step 1 Obligation Funds column $500,000, while the Step 2 Obligation Date column reads 'Entered Step 2 of CID via a CRISI Grant' and the Step 2 Obligation Funds column 'N/A'. No Step 3 entry is shown. No Colorado corridor appears in the report's New High-Speed Rail, Existing Route with Extension or Existing Route tables
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) · Corridor ID Program Monthly Obligation Status Report, last updated Tuesday 31 March 2026, 3 pages — obligation dates and funds by corridor and step (published 2026-03-31 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) · FRA's Corridor ID Obligation Status Report — eLibrary record, last updated 31 March 2026 (published 2026-03-31 · checked 2026-09-14)
The EAGLE Project concession as…$2.2 billion, 34-year agreementThe EAGLE Project concession as RTD publishes it on its own facts-and-figures page: total project funding of $2.2 billion including $1.03 billion in federal funds and $450 million in private financing, for the A Line, the G Line, the first segment of the B Line to Westminster, 56 commuter rail cars and a commuter rail maintenance facility, under a 34-year agreement with Denver Transit Partners to operate and maintain the system. RTD's 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report records $2,362.8 million spent on the Eagle Project through 2024, excluding financing, and $398 million of Private Activity Bonds issued by the concessionaire
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Eagle P3 Project — Open Records / Reports and Policies / Facts and Figures: project scope, total project funding, federal share, private financing and the term of the agreement with Denver Transit Partners (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report, 216 pages, cover-dated 24 November 2025 — RTD's report to the Governor and the General Assembly required by Senate Bill 24-230 as amended by Senate Bill 25-161: capital and annual operating costs and 2045 daily boardings for the four unfinished corridors (pp. 5, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 29), original programme spend by project (p. 13), the Denver Transit Partners Private Activity Bonds and the two parts of the concession payment (p. 24), and the identified funding and remaining funding gap (pp. 6, 28) (published 2025-11-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
RTD's 2025 Finishing FasTracks…$1,599.3m to finish four corridorsRTD's 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report, submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly under Senate Bill 24-230 as amended by Senate Bill 25-161, costs the four unfinished FasTracks corridors in 2024 dollars: Northwest Rail Peak Service $649.6m capital and $14.0m a year to operate for 1,100 daily boardings in 2045; North Metro Completion $395.7m and $5.4m for 1,500; Southwest Extension $343.5m and $2.5m for 700; Central Extension $210.5m and $0.7m for 300; $1,599.3m, $22.6m a year and 3,600 daily boardings in all. The report records that the original FasTracks budget was $4.7 billion and that RTD has spent $5.5 billion on the programme, approximately 75% complete since 2004
1 source · primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report, 216 pages, cover-dated 24 November 2025 — RTD's report to the Governor and the General Assembly required by Senate Bill 24-230 as amended by Senate Bill 25-161: capital and annual operating costs and 2045 daily boardings for the four unfinished corridors (pp. 5, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 29), original programme spend by project (p. 13), the Denver Transit Partners Private Activity Bonds and the two parts of the concession payment (p. 24), and the identified funding and remaining funding gap (pp. 6, 28) (published 2025-11-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
The funding table in RTD's 2025…$443m identified, $1.157bn gapThe funding table in RTD's 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report: $443 million of funding identified as potentially available between 2026 and 2034 — FasTracks Internal Savings Account $145 million, SB230 Rail Program $162 million, SB184 $126 million and SB260 $10 million — against a $1.6 billion construction cost, leaving a remaining funding gap on capital cost alone of $1.157 billion. RTD labels the $443 million an optimistic estimate that assumes a larger share of statewide funds than is likely, states that the $1.6 billion is in 2024 dollars and excludes future inflation, and records that even a scaled-back programme of only the Northwest Rail Peak Service and the North Metro corridor would cost approximately $1 billion. The figures are capital only and exclude the cost of operating and maintaining the new services
1 source · primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report, 216 pages, cover-dated 24 November 2025 — RTD's report to the Governor and the General Assembly required by Senate Bill 24-230 as amended by Senate Bill 25-161: capital and annual operating costs and 2045 daily boardings for the four unfinished corridors (pp. 5, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 29), original programme spend by project (p. 13), the Denver Transit Partners Private Activity Bonds and the two parts of the concession payment (p. 24), and the identified funding and remaining funding gap (pp. 6, 28) (published 2025-11-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
Senate Bill 24-230SB 24-230, amended by SB 25-161Senate Bill 24-230, Concerning Support for Statewide Remediation Services that Positively Impact the Environment, required RTD to prioritise completion of the Northwest Rail (B Line) and North Metro (N Line) corridors of the 2004 voter-approved FasTracks Plan and to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly by 1 July 2025 demonstrating how it will complete the plan's unfinished corridors by 2034; Senate Bill 25-161, Transit Reform, required additional financial information in that report and extended the submittal deadline to 1 December 2025. RTD's Board took the draft as a discussion item on 30 September 2025 and held a public hearing on 28 October 2025; the report is cover-dated 24 November 2025 and RTD's FasTracks page lists it as final. No Board resolution adopting the report is published
4 sources · all primary
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report, 216 pages, cover-dated 24 November 2025 — RTD's report to the Governor and the General Assembly required by Senate Bill 24-230 as amended by Senate Bill 25-161: capital and annual operating costs and 2045 daily boardings for the four unfinished corridors (pp. 5, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 29), original programme spend by project (p. 13), the Denver Transit Partners Private Activity Bonds and the two parts of the concession payment (p. 24), and the identified funding and remaining funding gap (pp. 6, 28) (published 2025-11-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Finishing FasTracks programme page — the statutory requirement under Senate Bill 24-230 as amended by Senate Bill 25-161 and the link to the report, listed as FINAL: 2025 Finishing FasTracks Report (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Board of Directors, Board Meeting of 30 September 2025 — Draft Finishing FasTracks Report carried as a Discussion Item, with the board presentation and the report appendix as attachments; minutes and full-text transcript published (published 2025-09-30 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Regional Transportation District (RTD) · Board of Directors, Board Meeting of 28 October 2025 — Public Hearing for the Finishing FasTracks Report; minutes and full-text transcript published (published 2025-10-28 · checked 2026-09-14)
The Colorado Public Utilities C…approximately $240,000 a yearThe Colorado Public Utilities Commission's Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Signalization Fund, established in 1965 to change public at-grade crossings from passive warning devices to flashing lights, gates and bells. The commission publishes that the Fund receives approximately $240,000 per year, that railroads pay a minimum of 10% of the cost of installing signals at a public at-grade crossing, and that the remaining cost is split between the local government and the Fund. The commission holds primary jurisdiction over all public highway-rail crossings in Colorado and is the state safety oversight agency for rail fixed guideway systems; its rail rules are at 4 CCR 723-7 and its Office of Rail Safety was formalised by House Bill 24-1030
3 sources · all primary
  • ● Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) · Rail & Transit — the Rail and Transit Section's mandate in the commission's own words, the Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Signalization Fund, freight and heavy rail safety jurisdiction and light rail transit safety oversight (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) · Office of Rail Safety — the office's mission, its formalisation by HB24-1030, the two rail safety advisory committees, the wayside detector and blocked-crossing reporting duties, and the rail safety event/incident reporting desk (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) · Rail & Transit Safety — August 2026: the section's programmes, rules at 4 CCR 723-7, rulemakings under HB24-1030 and SB25-162, annual reports under Proceeding No. 24M-0015R, the crossing-change application and the Signalization Fund (published 2026-08 · checked 2026-09-14)

Buyers

BuyerTypeTendersContracts awarded
Regional Transportation District (RTD)Transit authority184
Colorado Department of Transportation — Division of Transit and RailState DOT21
Front Range Passenger Rail District (FRPRD)State SPV20
Colorado Transportation Investment Office (CTIO)State SPV10
Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC)Regulator / standards00

Tenders

TenderBuyerStatusValue bandNext key date
RTD Rail Infrastructure Work ProgramRTDBids closedvalue not publishedBids closed August 2026 · award expected
RTD Ticket vending machine replacementRTDBids closedno value published by the buyer; RTD publishes no estimated value on any solicitation on its procurement portalBids closed July 2026 · award expected
RTD EAGLE Project commuter rail linesRTDIn executionover $1bn
RTD Downtown Rail Reconstruction ProjectRTDIn execution$100–500m
RTD Design Support Consultant on-call contractsRTDIn execution$25–100m
RTD Masabi account-based ticketing system extensionRTDIn execution$5–25m
Union Pacific Passenger Rail Denver Union Station CraigCDOTIn executionvalue not published — the signed copy CDOT publishes is redacted and states no amount
Colorado Connector Colorado Springs Pueblo serviceFRPRDPlannedover $1bn
RTD B Line extension to LongmontRTDPlanned$500m–1bn
Central Corridor Extension 30th/Downing to 38th/BlakeRTDPlanned$100–500m
Colorado Connector Denver Fort Collins starter serviceFRPRDPlanned$100–500m
RTD Downtown Track Replacement 2024RTDPlanned$100–500mSanctioned December 2025
RTD N Line 124th to 162nd AvenueRTDPlanned$100–500m
RTD D Line extension to Highlands RanchRTDPlanned$100–500m
RTD Central corridor track replacementRTDPlanned$25–100mSanctioned December 2025
RTD Southwest corridor track replacementRTDPlanned$25–100mSanctioned December 2025
RTD Ticket vending machine replacement ST80RTDPlanned$25–100mSanctioned December 2025
Central corridor traction power substation replacementRTDPlanned$5–25mSanctioned December 2025
RTD Farebox replacement across fleetRTDPlanned$5–25mSanctioned December 2025
RTD Joint Service 90% conceptual designRTDPlanned$5–25m
CDOT Mountain Rail Service Development PlanCDOTPlanned$5–25m
RTD N Line design development Adams CountyRTDPlanned$5–25m
CTIO BNSF Denver Union Station Fort CollinsCTIOPlannedno value published; the term sheet is non-binding and publishes no figure

Cities

CityNetwork statusNetworks
Denveroperational — RTD's six light rail lines and four commuter rail lines radiate from Denver Union Station and the downtown loop, and Amtrak's daily California Zephyr between Chicago and San Francisco calls at Denver Union Station, as does the seasonal Winter Park Express to Winter Park Resort. Amtrak Thruway bus service connects Denver to the Southwest Chief at Raton, New Mexico. RTD's oldest light rail tracks, between 7th and Colfax and 30th and Downing, are under full-depth reconstruction with alternative rail service on the C and T Lines.RTD light rail (six lines); RTD commuter rail (A, B, G and N Lines); Amtrak California Zephyr; Amtrak Winter Park Express (seasonal)
Boulderno rail service — Boulder is served by RTD bus, including the Flatiron Flyer from Denver, and is a planned station on the Front Range Passenger Rail District's Colorado Connector Starter Service between Denver and Fort Collins from 2029. RTD's Northwest Rail B Line, a FasTracks commuter rail corridor, has never been built beyond Westminster.Planned: Colorado Connector Starter Service station (2029)
Fort Collinsno rail service — Fort Collins is the northern terminus of the Front Range Passenger Rail District's planned Colorado Connector, with three daily round trips to Denver from 2029 under Starter Service and four under Full Service. The Federal Transit Administration's Capital Investment Grants dashboard lists one Fort Collins project, the West Elizabeth Corridor, in Small Starts project development; it is bus rapid transit.Planned: Colorado Connector Starter Service terminus (2029)
Colorado Springsno scheduled passenger rail — Amtrak Thruway bus service connects Colorado Springs to the Southwest Chief, and the Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cog Railway operates a nine-mile standard-gauge line with rack rail year round as a scenic railway. The city is a planned Colorado Connector Full Service station and joined the Front Range Passenger Rail District, Pueblo, Trinidad and CDOT in a March 2024 application for a $10 million RAISE grant for station planning.Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cog Railway (scenic); Planned: Colorado Connector Full Service stations (North Colorado Springs and Colorado Springs, 2032)
Pueblono scheduled passenger rail — Amtrak Thruway bus service connects Pueblo to the Southwest Chief and to the California Zephyr. Colorado's legislature adopted the Southwest Chief and Front Range Passenger Rail Commission's recommendation that Amtrak add Pueblo as a Southwest Chief stop, and CDOT has recommended to the FRA and Amtrak that the route be rerouted to serve Pueblo and Walsenburg. Pueblo is the southern terminus of the planned Colorado Connector Full Service and hosts the Transportation Technology Center, where the Front Range Passenger Rail District held its board meeting of 28 August 2026.Planned: Colorado Connector Full Service terminus (2032)
Trinidadoperational — Trinidad is one of three Colorado stops on Amtrak's daily Southwest Chief between Chicago and Los Angeles, with Lamar and La Junta. Amtrak's five-year programme plan budgeted $250,000 for Trinidad station construction in FY23. The city is inside the Front Range Passenger Rail District's boundary and was a co-applicant on the 2024 RAISE application for station planning at Trinidad, Pueblo and Colorado Springs.Amtrak Southwest Chief

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