T-REX - Denver, Colorado
Posted by: Outspoken1
N 39° 41.655 W 104° 58.759
13S E 501773 N 4393823
Denver T-REX project (TRansportation EXpansion) project was completed years early and under budget (in part, due to global warming!).
Waymark Code: WMB1W3
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 03/24/2011
Views: 5
Denver's T-REX project was one of Colorado's most complicated civil engineering project because all construction has to be conducted while allowing the millions of vehicles that travel the corridor daily. Since I lived with this project, I will attest that overall things went very smoothly considering the magnitude of the project.
This project is cited in the iCivil Engineering website at (
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"The Transportation Expansion Project or T-REX was a $1.67 billion venture that had a goal of transforming the way people in the metro Denver area commute within the areas of Interstates 25 and 225, then the country's 14th busiest intersection. The T-REX effort widened major interstates to as much as 7 wide in each direction and added 19 miles (31 km) of double-track light rail throughout the metropolitan area (40 miles total). It's considered by some to be one of the most successful transportation upgrade projects in the United States. The T-REX project finished 3.2% under its $1.67B budget and 22 months ahead of schedule in 2006 and is considered to be an example of inter-governmental agency cooperation for transportation projects for North America and Worldwide. Stakeholders have been recognized nationally and internationally for its success, including quality management." from (
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The links on the iCivil website are broken, but other valid links include (
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