Crews for the Regional Transportation District are scheduled to close one lane in each direction of U.S. 36 between Church Ranch Boulevard and Wadsworth Parkway from 6 a.m. through 9 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 27, to pour the curbs on the deck of the pedestrian bridge.

A group of rail transit advocates asked a federal judge on Tuesday to stop FasTracks construction at Denver Union Station until the court can rule in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the environmental approval for the work.

View a slide show of the first girders placed for the light rail bridge over Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood.

The Regional Transportation District has put together a $122.6 million wish list of projects that are ready to go in the event Congress approves a second stimulus program for transportation infrastructure. Half of that total consists of four FasTracks pieces totaling $60.5 million.

Lakewood Edge reports that RTD’s West Corridor light rail contractor is removing the tall cottonwoods that line the 13th Avenue rail right-of-way.

The Denver Union Station Project Authority’s contractor for the Denver Union Station redevelopment project, Kiewit Western, will begin early construction activities at Denver Union Station beginning on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. Traffic will be redirected on Wewatta to one lane in each direction on the westbound side for a few weeks starting on Monday, Feb. 22.

Construction of the FasTracks West Corridor light rail project will reach a milestone next week with three overnight closures of Wadsworth Boulevard at 13th Avenue to set girders on what is planned to be Lakewood’s signature bridge. The Wadsworth Station on the West Corridor will be smack on top of the bridge.

RTD’s sales tax revenue inched forward for December retail sales, the second month of growth in a row. But it was a small advance – three-tenths of a percent when compared on the same basis with a year earlier.

Denver Transit Construction Group – a joint venture of Herzog Corp. of St. Joseph, Mo., and Stacy & Witbeck Inc. of Alameda, Calif. – has an update on recent construction progress and a look-ahead to upcoming construction activities in Golden, Lakewood and Denver.

A divided RTD board committee has given preliminary approval to removing a set of planned moving walkways from the design of the FasTracks transfer facility at Denver Union Station,a controversial element that has divided transit advocates and helped spawn a lawsuit.