RTD nixes move to Fort Lupton

FORT LUPTON — The Regional Transportation District’s Fastracks plan to help Union Pacific railroad relocate its 36th Street switching yard from Denver to Fort Lupton is on hold and possibly dead because of its price tag, an RTD spokeswoman said Thursday.

Pauletta Tonilas said the cost to RTD in assisting with the relocation was “just way beyond our budget.”

“The overall price on all the properties (being sought by RTD) is not affordable and one of those bigger pieces was the relocation of the 36th Street yard,” she said, but would not reveal actual dollar amounts.

RTD had hoped to help UP relocate…