I was at a museum with my son when I saw the breaking news on my phone. I kept seeing people high five each other, and hugging each other, saying things like “He’s guilty!” or “They did it!”.
I’ve struggled with books as well. I love reading, but often have a huge problem finishing them, even if I like them. It’s been a problem for many many years.
In Colorado, that new vision was catalyzed by climate change. In 2019, Gov. Jared Polis signed a law that required the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent within 30 years. As the state tried to figure out how it would get there, it zeroed in on drivers. Transportation is the largest single contributor to...
TABOR has fucked up the finances of the state for decades, making roads/highways/bridges/etc all crumbing, and not enough money to deal with it. Due to Colorado growth, the roads are not big enough to keep up. All “widening” in the last decade as become “Toll Only” lanes on highways, in a public/private partnership deal. These are, in effect, wealthy people cheater lanes.
I’m okay with limiting the widening of highways, as long as public transportation can meet demand, but as stated above, RTD (local bus/light-rail) has been VERY badly manage, and they just aren’t expanding, even when they have to funding to do so.
The issue I have with the Toll lanes is that private business fronts the money (since the state can’t get enough to do so), so they get to profit from it. ~~ E470 was supposed to be a Toll lane until everything was paid off. So when it was paid off, did they remove the tolls? No. They are still private.~~ All new tolls (3 or 4 in the last few years) are all doing the same thing.
You are right that alternative transportation is needed, but RTD is very very far from that. There are some circumstances (like from the Airport to Downtown, or several Suburbs to Downtown) that the light rail works well. RTD is setup as a Hub/Spoke model, so as long as you are going To/From downtown, and are close enough to a station, it can work, and work well. For the vast majority of people in Denver, it doesn’t work (forcing them onto the overcrowded highways which lead to the toll lanes).
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Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them | The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. (www.nytimes.com)
In Colorado, that new vision was catalyzed by climate change. In 2019, Gov. Jared Polis signed a law that required the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent within 30 years. As the state tried to figure out how it would get there, it zeroed in on drivers. Transportation is the largest single contributor to...
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