What killed Fort Lupton UP facility?

DENVER – On Jan. 4, negotiations on a deal already two years, $23 million, and dozens of community meetings in the making hit an impassable roadblock. The following week, Union Pacific Railroad announced it would not be building a multimodal rail facility near Fort Lupton. The project, which was expected to have a $3 billion economic impact in Weld County, was too expensive for the Denver-based Regional Transportation District.

RTD had approached UP over a year ago about relocating some of its Denver facilities so that RTD could acquire those properties for its FasTracks expansion and a commuter rail maintenance site.…