Englewood considers $7.09 million Rail Trail segment, studies crash corridor
A July 16 transportation committee packet outlines Rail Trail and Walk and Wheel costs while documenting traffic-count plans after a fatal University-Floyd crash; it does not show construction approval or a selected safety fix.
Englewood officials presented a consultant’s roughly $7.09 million construction estimate for a Rail Trail segment on July 16, alongside a 10-year walking and biking priority plan. Neither was approved construction, and the city’s response to a fatal crash at University Boulevard and Floyd Avenue remains in the study stage.
The proposed Rail Trail segment would run from the Oxford pedestrian bridge to Kenyon Avenue. The consultant estimated 100% design work at $508,597, including $25,000 for railroad right-of-way acquisition for design purposes. Construction was estimated at $7.09 million, with about $1.8 million more listed for railroad right-of-way acquisitions. The packet does not identify a funding source or clarify whether the right-of-way figures are additive to the design estimate.
The concept includes a 10-foot-wide trail, a buffer with water-quality features and vegetation, and parking areas, the Englewood Transportation Advisory Committee packet says. The Rail Trail item was a presentation of a consultant quote, not an authorization to proceed.
Walk and Wheel plan runs through 2033
The city also presented an update to its Walk and Wheel plan, originally completed in 2015 and updated in April 2022. Its Tier 1 priority table assigns $2.498 million across 2023-2033, with annual allocations ranging from $175,000 to $300,000.
The schedule includes projects on Sherman Street, Elati-Fox, Floyd Avenue between Broadway and University, wayfinding and Quincy between the Rail Trail and Clarkson. It also lists intersection projects at Sherman and Dartmouth, Elati-Fox and Oxford, and Bannock and Oxford. The table is a priority-and-cost plan, not evidence that the projects were built or authorized in each year; the packet does not establish that the city adopted it as a capital budget.
The listed planning, design and construction estimates include about $2.75 million at Clarkson Street and U.S. 285 and $980,000 to extend the Southwest Greenbelt to the Rail Trail.
University and Floyd response remains in study phase
The July 16 record says Englewood staff and City Council members met with Denver representatives to coordinate an investigation of the corridor after the June 20 crash. The cities plan to collect traffic counts after school resumes, with the work scheduled for late August. The counts are intended to evaluate traffic control, pedestrian crossings and crash mitigation and to identify potential changes.
An update to the transportation committee is expected in October. The record does not name a selected redesign, signal change, crossing treatment or other fix, and does not establish what caused the collision. As of July 17, the work documented in the packet is coordination and data gathering, not a completed safety improvement.