$68 million Mason corridor project nearer reality

FORT COLLINS – Before Fort Collins spends $68 million on the biggest transit project in its history, it would pay to know where the money is going.

Just to be clear: There is no Mason Street Corridor. There is only the Mason Corridor.

“There was confusion caused by calling the corridor the Mason Street Corridor,´ said Anne Aspen, planner in the Fort Collins Current Planning Department. “Some people thought the street would be going away.  It’s not. The (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) railroad is granting an easement for bus travel, and the existing Mason Street will become two-way.”

The corridor runs just west…