The G Line was a light rail line of the Regional Transportation District in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area in Colorado. It was added to the system on November 17, 2006, with the completion of the Southeast Corridor project (the "T-Rex Project"). It was one of four routes that were part of the RTD's service plan for the corridor. It was the only line in TheRide not serving downtown Denver.
The G Line's northern terminus was at Nine Mile Station in Aurora on the I-225 branch of the system, while its southern terminus was at Lincoln Avenue Station in Lone Tree. The G Line was one of very few tangential ("suburb to suburb") rail transit lines in the United States.
According to a map in the RTD's service plan for the corridor,[citation needed] the G Line's color was brown. In August 2007, night, Saturday, Sunday and holiday service on this route was discontinued due to low ridership. An exception was the lone northbound Owl service trip on weekend and holiday mornings. The owl train traversed both the E & H Lines by way of the G Line link. Service was further reduced to peak hour-only in August 2008 before being eliminated entirely on May 3, 2009.
[edit] FasTracks
The 2004 voter-approved FasTracks initiative will mark the return of the G Line. The G Line will run from a new station at RidgeGate Parkway, through stations at Lone Tree City Center and Sky Ridge Medical Center, along its former route past Nine Mile station. It will then follow a new route predominantly following Interstate 225 with stations at Iliff Avenue, Florida Avenue, Aurora City Center, 2nd Avenue, 13th Avenue, Colfax Avenue, Montview Avenue (on the Anschutz Medical Campus) and a co-located Peoria Street and Smith Road station with the East Corridor commuter rail service to Union Station and Denver International Airport. This service may start as soon as 2017.[1]
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C Line (Littleton Mineral – Union Station) · D Line (Littleton Mineral – 30th & Downing) · E Line (Lincoln – Union Station) · F Line (Lincoln – Downtown) · H Line (Nine Mile – Downtown)
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Discontinued Services
G Line (Lincoln – Nine Mile)
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