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  Artist's rendering of downtown Denver with Arrivo. [credit: Arrivo ]

A Hyperloop-related startup tabbed Arrivo is towers a $15 million test part-way and test track in the Denver Metro area, with the manna of the Colorado Department of Transportation (DOT). The deal will be the second Hyperloop-related project for Colorado, without startup Hyperloop One and engineering firm Aecom spoken in September that they would uncork feasibility studies for a Rocky Mountain Hyperloop that would proffer from Pueblo, Colorado, to Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Arrivo is headed by a name that may be familiar to Ars readers: Brogan BamBrogan. BamBrogan was an engineer at SpaceX and later the senior technology officer at Hyperloop One. He quit, withal with a small personnel of Hyperloop One executives, tween a flurry of lawsuits accusing the remaining executives on the Hyperloop One team of mismanagement and harassment. Hyperloop One sued back, accusing BamBrogan and his group of breaches of duty. The two sides quietly settled last November, and BamBrogan focused on towers Arrivo while Hyperloop One moved forward with its Nevada test track.

According to the Denver Business Journal, BamBrogan says that the past is in the past with Hyperloop One, and Arrivo’s partnership with Colorado DOT was in no way trying to compete with Hyperloop One’s work in the state. Colorado’s DOT told Ars that it is still pursuing the feasibility study with Hyperloop One.