Denver’s WORLD CLASS stadium deserves a WORLD CLASS light rail station...
Let’s Drop the Rail underground to avoid surface crossings between La Alma - Lincoln Park (LALP) and Burnham Yard.
Should we accept a plan that brings the danger, noise and traffic of light rail to within 50 feet of homes, schools, and housing for the elderly and medically-fragile for 20 hours a day?
Do we really want the connection between LALP, Burnham Yard and the new stadium to be from behind barbed wire?
Should the taxpayers, not the team, foot the bill for the staion and rail redesign?
Interested in the Drop The Rail Movement?
Please sign the petition and encourage your friends and family to do so as well. Anyone can sign...not just people in La Alma-Lincoln Park or the Greater Denver Metro area. Thank you.
WHAT
The LALP community wants the 10th & Osage station and light rail lines between 13th and 8th Avenue to be dropped underground to avoid at-grade crossings.
Burnham Yard and LALP have to be connected, but light rail on the surface is in the way. Let’s connect the community to the new stadium the right way now, when the cost and disruption are the lowest they will ever be.
WHY
Building at-grade crossings rather than underground lines through the neighborhood means profound compromises to safety, inclusion, and quality of life for existing residents.
Everyone—from RTD to walking / cycling advocates to LALP residents—understand that at-grade crossings are the worst possible option. But it is the LALP community that has the most to lose if the rail lines remain on the surface.
HOW
With no buildings, roads or other infrastructure in the way, the underground spur and station could be built without disrupting existing light rail service.
The station at 10th & Osage needs to be rebuilt and RTD wants up to two additional lines through Burnham Yard.
This is a rare win-win-win for LALP, the Broncos and RTD, because, in addition to everything else, dropping the rails and station underground means the surface could be developed to help offset construction costs.