{"id":4836,"date":"2016-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/2016\/04\/13\/university-catches-the-rtd-a-train-links-to-anschutz\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T15:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T21:29:39","slug":"university-catches-the-rtd-a-train-links-to-anschutz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/university-catches-the-rtd-a-train-links-to-anschutz\/","title":{"rendered":"University catches the RTD \u201cA\u201d train; links to Anschutz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A long-awaited RTD light rail line is set to open, with a stop just a couple of miles from the Anschutz Medical Campus. But the trains will carry a familiar campus name across many miles of track.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144935\/EXT_041316_A20Line20Map-scaled.webp\" alt=\"The A Line\u2019s Peoria stop \" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The A Line\u2019s Peoria stop is a short distance from the Anschutz Medical Campus and connects with the 121 bus line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of Colorado A Line, a nearly 23-mile line running from Denver\u2019s Union Station downtown to Denver International Airport, is slated to open for business at noon on April 22 with free rides for the public. The line includes <a href=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144932\/CU_A_LineMap1215-scaled.webp\">six stops in between<\/a> the train station and the airport, including one just west of Peoria Street and 33rd Avenue. Total travel time from Union Station to the Peoria stop: 16 minutes. From there, patients, visitors and employees headed to the Anschutz Medical Campus can catch RTD\u2019s 121 bus route for a short ride south. Travelers to campus will also be able to take the Route 89 bus at the A Line\u2019s Central Park Station, one stop west of Peoria.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctrain-to-plane\u201d ad is one of many that include the University of Colorado name and logo.<br \/>\nThe University of Colorado has naming rights for the line through RTD\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtd-denver.com\/doing-business-with-rtd\/corporate-partnerships\">Corporate Partnerships Program<\/a>. The five-year, $5 million agreement \u2013 the first finalized under the program \u2013 is part of \u201ca major initiative to raise our profile,\u201d said Ken McConnellogue, CU\u2019s vice president for communications. \u201cThe A Line is an important part of that effort,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The broad marketing campaign, dubbed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All Four: Colorado<\/a>,\u201d launched last September and includes television, billboard and digital advertising. It aims to raise awareness of the system\u2019s campuses in Boulder, Denver, Aurora, and Colorado Springs. The partnership also gives CU advertising rights on the \u201cFlatiron Flyer,\u201d which provides rapid-transit bus service from Union Station to Boulder. A Flatiron Flyer line from the Anschutz Medical Campus to Boulder is also now up and running.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Making an impression<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McConnellogue noted that the A Line will carry an estimated 10 million riders annually, a significant number of them national and international visitors getting a taste of what Colorado has to offer for the first time. The exterior of the trains will carry the CU name and logo, as will some 35,000 maps, 50,000 schedules, digital destination boards marking train arrivals and departures, and protective canopies on train platforms.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144935\/EXT_041316_A20Line20Test-scaled.webp\" alt=\"A-line practice run\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of Colorado A Line speeds through a practice run in preparation for its debut April 22.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CU name will be announced in pre-recorded messages and displayed on video display terminals in the cars that will loop footage of the campuses with scrolling informational messages about the university campuses. Individuals looking up the A Line on RTD\u2019s mobile app and website will also see \u201cCU\u201d and \u201cUniversity of Colorado\u201d on each visit.<\/p>\n<p>The blitz is all about making an impression, McConnellogue said. \u201cIn a market that is fiercely competitive for staff, philanthropy and research, we felt strongly it was important to get our name out there,\u201d he said. \u201cWe look at the RTD naming rights as an investment, and one of the returns is many millions of dollars\u2019 worth of publicity value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CU-RTD partnership puzzled some who wondered why one public entity would pay another for naming rights, McConnellogue conceded. But he noted that CU\u2019s competitors are \u201call spending boatloads of money on publicity.\u201d Beyond extending CU\u2019s name recognition, he added, the deal helps to link the university system to the metro area\u2019s healthy growth.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144934\/EXT_041316_12120at20Peoria20Stop-scaled.webp\" alt=\"RTD\u2019s 121 bus\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RTD\u2019s 121 bus will link to the A Line at the Peoria and 33rd Avenue stop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRTD is undertaking what is perhaps the biggest and newest transportation project in the nation, if not in the world,\u201d McConnellogue said. \u201cDenver is a dynamic place and we feel this partnership makes us part of that dynamism and will help us to leverage what we want to do\u201d as a university.<\/p>\n<p>The A Line opening is a major milestone in RTD\u2019s FasTracks initiative, which originally was approved by Colorado voters in 2004 to expand transit services in the Denver metro area. The A Line is part of a larger project, dubbed the Eagle P3, that also includes construction of the G (Gold) and B (Northwest Rail) lines. These two lines, slated for completion late in 2016, will connect Wheat Ridge and Westminster, respectively, to Union Station. When it wraps up, the Eagle P3 project will add a combined 36 miles of transit lines.<br \/>\n<strong>Another piece of the puzzle<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144933\/EXT_041316_R20Line20I22520Stop-scaled.webp\" alt=\"The R Line\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The R Line, slated to open late this year, includes this stop above Colfax Avenue at I-225.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also on tap later this year is completion of the 10.5-mile R Line that will connect Nine Mile Station in southeast Aurora with the A Line. The R Line\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/02\/28144932\/I225_R_Line_Fact_Sheet_2016_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eight stops<\/a> on its travels through Aurora include two near the Anschutz Medical Campus: one to the east at Colfax Avenue and I-225 and another to the north at Fitzsimons Parkway and Ursula Street.<\/p>\n<p>Plans are well underway to provide shuttle service for travelers to the Anschutz campus when the R Line opens, said Dave Turnquist, associate vice chancellor for Facilities Operations for the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus. He said the university, University of Colorado Hospital and Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado officials have jointly discussed details for operating the service. As part of the preparations for the R Line, UCH and its campus partners also conducted surveys to solicit from employees feedback about their transportation needs.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/1970\/01\/28144933\/EXT_041316_Fitzsimons20Stop-scaled.webp\" alt=\"Fitzsimons Stop \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The R Line stop at Fitzsimons Parkway and Ursula Street, north of the Anschutz Medical Campus, will be serviced by shuttle buses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The shuttle, which Turnquist says will be free and open to the public, will run from the Fitzsimons Parkway light rail stop and is currently slated to make <a href=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/02\/28144932\/r20line20shuttle20route20proposal20march202016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">five stops<\/a> at major campus buildings for CU, University Physicians, Inc., Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado and UCH employees and visitors. The stops include one near UCH\u2019s Leprino Building.<\/p>\n<p>Turnquist said the bus routes will be timed to match the R Line schedule, with shuttles arriving at the Fitzsimons stop roughly seven minutes apart during peak times. Shuttles will operate seven days a week, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The university received $1.5 million from a <a href=\"https:\/\/drcog.org\/transportation-planning\/funding-project-delivery\/transportation-improvement-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TIP (Transportation Improvement) grant<\/a> through the Denver Council of Regional Governments to help pay for the 18-seat, ADA-accessible shuttles, Turnquist said. He expects the buses to be delivered at the end of May, in advance of RTD testing the R Line in late summer. The plan is to hire shuttle bus drivers by November and have them in place for the R Line\u2019s slated December opening, Turnquist added.<\/p>\n<p><em>For regularly updated information on all lines involved in the FasTracks project, visit the<\/em> <em>RTD website<\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-awaited RTD light rail line is set to open, with a stop just a couple of miles from the Anschutz Medical Campus. But the trains will carry a familiar campus name across many miles of track. 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