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Tree Removal and Relocation along Mason Corridor Begins Feb. 27
Released on Friday, February 24th, 2012
Contact Information
Erika Keeton, Project Engineer, 970.221.6521,
The City of Fort Collins will be working with a professional tree relocation contractor February 27-May 1 to transplant trees from the Mason Corridor to various pre-determined sites. Mason Corridor, the five mile north-south byway of Mason Street, will be under construction for the next two years in preparation for the MAX Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system.
Construction Details
Work hours for the tree replanting will be Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.- 6 p.m. with some exceptions. Extremely tall trees will be moved during off peak hours so as not to tie up traffic on College Avenue. Trees are being relocated along the length of the Mason Corridor. They will be replanted at the following locations: new South Transit Center site, new Transfort Maintenance Facility site, near the new Troutman underpass, and on Colorado State University’s south campus.
Commitment to our Natural Environment
Fort Collins has long been a community which values trees and its urban forest. Using large tree removal spades, the contractor will be able to remove and relocate many more trees than the City is usually able to. Trees will be excavated and replanted within the same day. Due to the large amount of trees, over 100, the project will last two months, weather permitting. Per City policy, trees that cannot be replanted will be replaced at the conclusion of the project.
The contractor for the project is Environmental Design. The contractor recently completed complex tree relocations at the World Trade Center Memorial grove in New York City.
A Tree City, USA® for 33 years, Fort Collins is home to a wide variety of trees planted by early settlers and today’s citizens. The City of Fort Collins has a Forestry Department which maintains and manages 44,000 trees, plus serves as consultant arborists to other City departments when tree relocations and replantings are needed for infrastructure construction, capital improvement projects and more.
Many Mason Corridor pre-construction activities will be taking place between now and mid May, when contractors come onboard and construct the BRT guideway (designated travel lane), the over pass behind Whole Foods, the underpass at Troutman Road, the South Transit Center south of Harmony Road and a new maintenance facility for Transfort off of Trilby Road.
About Mason Corridor
The Mason Corridor is a five mile north-south byway within the city of Fort Collins which extends from Cherry Street on the north to south of Harmony Road. The corridor is centered along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway property, located a few hundred feet west of College Avenue (US 287). The Mason Corridor includes a bicycle and pedestrian trail as well as a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, MAX, which will operate in an exclusive transit-only roadway for the majority of the corridor. Ripe for redevelopment and new construction, the Mason Corridor is an economic initiative with long term benefits.
MAX is on the Way!
MAX will link major destinations and activity centers along the corridor including the Downtown commercial, cultural, and business centers, Colorado State University, Foothills Mall, and South College retail areas. MAX will operate nearly twice as fast as auto travel along College Avenue, and provide high frequency service every 10 minutes. Future regional transit connections will link to MAX at the new South Transit Center.
The $87 million project is funded 80 percent by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The remaining 20 percent is available from the City of Fort Collins, Downtown Development Authority, CSU/Colorado State University Research Foundation, and Colorado Department of Transportation.
Follow the Mason Street conversion and Mason Corridor progress at www.fcgov.com/mason.
Construction Details
Work hours for the tree replanting will be Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.- 6 p.m. with some exceptions. Extremely tall trees will be moved during off peak hours so as not to tie up traffic on College Avenue. Trees are being relocated along the length of the Mason Corridor. They will be replanted at the following locations: new South Transit Center site, new Transfort Maintenance Facility site, near the new Troutman underpass, and on Colorado State University’s south campus.
Commitment to our Natural Environment
Fort Collins has long been a community which values trees and its urban forest. Using large tree removal spades, the contractor will be able to remove and relocate many more trees than the City is usually able to. Trees will be excavated and replanted within the same day. Due to the large amount of trees, over 100, the project will last two months, weather permitting. Per City policy, trees that cannot be replanted will be replaced at the conclusion of the project.
The contractor for the project is Environmental Design. The contractor recently completed complex tree relocations at the World Trade Center Memorial grove in New York City.
A Tree City, USA® for 33 years, Fort Collins is home to a wide variety of trees planted by early settlers and today’s citizens. The City of Fort Collins has a Forestry Department which maintains and manages 44,000 trees, plus serves as consultant arborists to other City departments when tree relocations and replantings are needed for infrastructure construction, capital improvement projects and more.
Many Mason Corridor pre-construction activities will be taking place between now and mid May, when contractors come onboard and construct the BRT guideway (designated travel lane), the over pass behind Whole Foods, the underpass at Troutman Road, the South Transit Center south of Harmony Road and a new maintenance facility for Transfort off of Trilby Road.
About Mason Corridor
The Mason Corridor is a five mile north-south byway within the city of Fort Collins which extends from Cherry Street on the north to south of Harmony Road. The corridor is centered along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway property, located a few hundred feet west of College Avenue (US 287). The Mason Corridor includes a bicycle and pedestrian trail as well as a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, MAX, which will operate in an exclusive transit-only roadway for the majority of the corridor. Ripe for redevelopment and new construction, the Mason Corridor is an economic initiative with long term benefits.
MAX is on the Way!
MAX will link major destinations and activity centers along the corridor including the Downtown commercial, cultural, and business centers, Colorado State University, Foothills Mall, and South College retail areas. MAX will operate nearly twice as fast as auto travel along College Avenue, and provide high frequency service every 10 minutes. Future regional transit connections will link to MAX at the new South Transit Center.
The $87 million project is funded 80 percent by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The remaining 20 percent is available from the City of Fort Collins, Downtown Development Authority, CSU/Colorado State University Research Foundation, and Colorado Department of Transportation.
Follow the Mason Street conversion and Mason Corridor progress at www.fcgov.com/mason.