Denver Business Journal
February 2, 2010, Cathy Proctor

President Barack Obama’s $3.83 trillion budget proposal includes $80 million for two of the FasTrack rail-transit project’s major routes: the East line between downtown and Denver International Airport, and the Gold line from downtown to Wheat Ridge. Each line was recommended to receive $40 million as part of the proposed fiscal 2011 budget’s “New Full Funding Grant Agreement Funding Recommendations.” FasTracks’ West corridor, from downtown to Golden, also received a recommendation for $40 million, as part of its existing grant agreement between Denver's Regional Transportation District, which oversees FasTracks, and the federal government. RTD has said it hopes to get up to $1 billion in federal money, through a full funding grant agreement, to help pay for the two lines....

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