Denver International Airport is suing the city's Regional Transportation District to recover $53 million in costs for contracted work on the airport's Hotel and Transit Center Project, still under construction. Airport officials filed the lawsuit after a mediator refused to grant DIA the full amount from RTD. The money would be used to pay for site excavation, roadways, train-platform construction and other infrastructure work at the airport terminal. Both agencies say the other one should pay for the improvements.
DIA, which is owned by the city of Denver, is working under an intergovernmental agreement with RTD to build a transit center at the south end of the terminal. The project includes a train station for commuter rail that will connect the airport with downtown Denver. The rail line is more than 50% complete.