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Government Planners Nix Key Highway Expansions In Favor of Bike Lanes, Bus Travel 0
- August 15, 2022
“Let them ride bikes,” say the transportation planners of the state’s most populated regional planning organization. The fallout from CDOT’s shift from an organization solely concerned with building and maintaining the state’s roads into a technocratic experiment in human behavioral engineering is beginning to take effect. From CPR News: The board of the Denver Regional
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The Forgotten Stakeholders: “Green” Transportation Will Be Funded by Underpaid Workers 0
- June 21, 2019
By Tegan Truitt Fourth blog in our series on the Colorado Green New Deal The indirect, and in some cases the direct consequences of the Colorado Green New Deal will not be pretty. Among the bills comprising this stream of environmental legislation is Senate Bill 239, which Governor Jared Polis signed into law on May 31,
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RTD’s death spiral 0
- January 16, 2019
Much of RTD’s problem stems from its mania for an obsolete form of transportation: trains.
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Mass transit is collapsing everywhere 0
- May 15, 2018
Nationwide transit ridership in March 2018 was 5.9 percent below March 2017, according to the latest data published by the Federal Transit Administration. Following three years of steady declines, these numbers present a dire picture of the nation’s transit industry. Ridership declined in all of the nation’s 38 largest urban areas (and the 39th, Providence,
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Caldara’s Newsletter 03-23-17 0
- March 23, 2017
Lately, I have felt very loved by the editorial section of the Denver Post! Regarding our proposal to force the state legislature to do their damn jobs and Fix Our Damn Roads by re-prioritizing an obscene, unimaginable 2% of the budget towards roads, the editorial board wrote, “What our bungled state budget doesn’t need is
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RTD finally deserves a compliment 0
- December 1, 2016
by Jon Caldara As you may know, I have a hard time giving RTD a compliment. But they’ve earned one. My political career started when I was elected to the Regional Transportation District board in 1994, where I later became chairman. I was quick to realize that not only does RTD do little to increase
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