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Gold Line (RTD)

G Line
Gold Line(RTD) from Tellar St looking west in snow.jpg
Gold Line covered in snow near the Ward Road station.
Overview
Type Commuter rail
System Regional Transportation District
Status Under construction
Locale Denver Metropolitan Area
Termini Union Station
Wheat Ridge
Stations 8
Website RTD-Denver - G-Line
Operation
Opened TBD
Owner Regional Transportation District
Operator(s) Denver Transit Partners
Technical
Line length 11.2 miles (18.0 km)
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification Overhead lines, 25k V AC 60 Hz
Route diagram
Opening 2018
Wheat Ridge / Ward
Arvada Ridge
Olde Town Arvada
SH 121 (Wadsworth Bypass)
SH 95 (Sheridan Boulevard)
60th & Sheridan / Arvada Gold Strike
US 287 (Federal Boulevard)
Clear Creek / Federal
 B 
Pecos Junction
CRMF
41st & Fox
 N 
(Opens 2018)
 A 
Union Station
Amtrak A  B  ( N  2018)
 C  E  W 

The G Line, also known as the Gold Line during construction, is a Regional Transportation District (RTD) electric commuter rail line between Denver Union Station and Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Long scheduled to open in October 2016, the opening was delayed until 2018. The reason specified for the delay was timing issues experienced by the other commuter rail lines in the RTD system, which currently require a Federal Railroad Administration waiver to operate their grade crossings manually, and the wireless crossing system used by those lines.

The Gold Line is part of the RTD’s FasTracks expansion plan, and will be operated by Denver Transit Partners as part of the Eagle P3 public–private partnership. The line received a Record of Decision approval from the Federal Transit Administration in November 2009 allowing the line to be developed. Groundbreaking for the line occurred on 31 August 2011, at a ceremony in Olde Town Arvada where US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the approval of a $1 billion grant to fund the project.

The line will be 11.2 miles (18.0 km) in length, and is expected to cost $590.5 million. There will be a total of eight stations: Union Station, 41st Avenue, Pecos, Federal, Sheridan, Olde Town, Arvada Ridge and Ward Road.

The project's nickname of the "Gold Line" refers to the June 1850 discovery of gold by Georgia prospector Lewis Ralston in Ralston Creek, which runs a few blocks from the Olde Town Station.

The G Line's southern terminus is at Union Station in Denver. It runs on a railroad right-of-way north sharing track with the B Line until the Pecos Station after which the two routes diverge. The G Line continues west to its terminus in Wheat Ridge.


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