One thing you can be certain of: an increased focus on mobility as Flynn and DRCOG define it will leave the region’s drivers increasingly immobile.
A vote for the proposed Eagle Valley Transportation Authority is a vote for government waste, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and inequitable taxation.
Simply by having one chamber of the legislature in Republican hands, we can start the process of bringing back policy that better serves a broader majority
Those who hoped to save energy or reduce greenhouse gas emissions by getting people out of their cars and onto transit are doomed to disappointment.
Highways are more resilient than transit because they don’t require billions of dollars in operating subsidies.
Most of the increase in August was due to the recovery from the pandemic, not to free transit.
If Aurora or any other district wants to take the risk that electric is the wave of the future and pay the huge cost themselves, then good for them.
While every line item in the state budget has exploded over the years, it is a surprise to no one stuck in traffic that road building has flat-lined for more than a decade.
When the chemically addicted, mentally ill start camping out in rail cars and buses they might chase away riders in the same way they’ve chased people out of downtown.
It’s unfortunate that voters aren’t more interested in RTD since it’s ranked the fourth largest government in Colorado, with a budget that rivals that of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).
This year, Polis also signed House Bill 1351, magnanimously delaying the new gas tax that he (working with the legislature) imposed.
Democrats realized that if they call something a “fee” instead of a “tax” they can evade TABOR and raise revenue without ever having to ask voters.
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