Eagle P3

Eagle P3 is part of the RTD FasTracks public transportation expansion plan and voter-approved sales tax increase for the Greater Metropolitan Denver area in Colorado.

[1] The first full transit DBFOM public-private partnership in the United States was the Tren Urbano in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

[2] Out of these, the RTD in June awarded the contract to Denver Transit Partners, a consortium led by engineering firm Fluor Corporation and the Macquarie Group investment bank, with Uberior Infrastructure Investments and infrastructure designer, bullder, and maintenance company Balfour Beatty as the other major partners.

[3] Macquarie Group subsequently sold its stake in the project to John Laing and Uberior at the financial closing of the contract.

[1] The project is expected to cost about $2.1 billion, with funding coming largely from three sources: federal, private partner investment, and local.

The primary source will be RTD issued bonds, to repaid with sales tax revenues collected by the voter-approved FasTracks plan.

[3] On October 21, 2011, Wabtec signed a $63 million contract with Denver Transit Partners to construct the positive train control system for the Eagle P3 commuter rail lines.

A Line train, built and operated by Denver Transit Partners, as part of the Eagle P3 agreement, at Denver Airport station on opening day of the A Line
Bridge built by Denver Transit Partners that carries the B and G lines over freight lines and South Platte River