If you’re traveling to Denver International Airport this month, take heed. There will be train trouble. Happily, unlike last month’s debacle, it’s planned trouble.
The airport will shut down the trains that ferry passengers from the main terminal to the concourses overnight from 9:15 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Feb. 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 and 28.
The people affected by the closures will be travelers and workers going to and from the B and C concourses.
Instead of using the trains, they will need to use Bridge Security, which will be the main checkpoint starting at 8 p.m. Instead of using trains, buses will shuttle passengers to those concourses. Signs and airport staff will provide on-site instructions.
Airport officials suggest people show up half an hour earlier than they otherwise would.
To avoid problems for workers and passengers alike, “We will have buses operating between the Terminal and concourses, we’re working with airlines to communicate with traveling passengers in advance of their flights, we’re maximizing gate space on Concourse A, and it’s why the tests will be conducted overnight,” Marquez said.
Why are the trains being shut down these nights?
The airport needs to test the train’s electrical power system and evaluate how power is distributed through the Automated Guideway Transit System and other critical systems needed to bring 26 new trains to DIA.
“DEN Operations is working hard to minimize the impact to passengers and employees,” Sarah Marquez, senior vice president of airport operations, said in a statement.
For more information, go to the airport’s website.
