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The Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) Board of Directors has adopted a $1.8 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2025. The budget will officially take effect Jan. 1, 2025.
The largest expenditure listed in the budget will go toward the Downtown Light Rail Reconstruction Project, totaling $152 million for FY 2025. The investment covers the first of four phases, starting with grade crossing replacements across four intersections. The reconstruction effort, carried over from FY 2024, will help ensure the light rail track and related infrastructure are kept in a state of good repair.
The budget features a series of supplementary, infrastructure, vehicle fleet, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and public facility projects to maintain operational effectiveness and reliability. Examples of these projects include:
- Replacing maintenance vehicles and buses.
- Replacing radio devices.
- Repairing damaged concrete and associated infrastructure.
- Replacing facility heating and cooling units.
- Repairing bridges.
- Replacing curbs.
RTD will also continue to implement Strategic Plan Initiatives to improve workforce development, maintain assets in states of good repair, improve security and safety and foster community connections.
Photo courtesy Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
