The Littleton City Council recommended Mineral Station as the site for a proposed Front Range Passenger Rail stop after weighing it against a downtown station. Both options would integrate the stop into the city’s existing Regional Transportation District light rail stations.
“We’re very fortunate that the district has designated Littleton as, potentially, a South Metro Denver location stop for the rail service,” City Manager Jim Becklenberg said. “As the project evolves in coming months, staff will be back with the council about additional decisions that we may need to make.”
City staff said the downtown station, while building upon the city’s cultural and historic center, would incur significantly higher development costs. Platform and infrastructure costs were estimated to range from $100 million to more than $1 billion…