Posted on 02/19/2011 10:18:23 PM PST by george76
In a time of lean state budgets, the Colorado Department of Transportation has launched an $800,000 study of the state’s railroads and created a new department to deal with railway and other transportation issues.
It’s a move that could lay the groundwork for long-talked-about plans for high-speed trains from Pueblo through Colorado Springs to Fort Collins
(Excerpt) Read more at csbj.com ...
The transportation agency has contracted a Parsons Brinckerhoff-led consultant team ...
http://www.progressiverailroading.com/news/article.asp?id=16206
Every city should have a Leftist regional rail plan so once built it’ll make it easier to cart away all those who disagree with the State. Think Hitler and Stalin.
People who push for these boondoggles especially like it when somebody else pays for them.
CDOT loves to do studies.
Wonder who’s BIL or pals works for the firms doing these endless studies—Romer or ?
CDOT likely could have added a third tunnel everywhere on I-70 plus added another lane both ways on I-70 for these expensive studies
So the Indians can bring forces to bear on Custer that much faster.
Who the hell things of BS things like this? Research I did on the FL rail proposal brought me to look at BART and the light rail they run down through Silicon Valley.
As many riders as they get on that and they STILL only earn 50% of revenue through ridership. The other 50% comes out of taxpayer pockets. Every year.
I hate public transportation. It adds a whole hour to my daily commute. Why do I have to pay for your transportation, education, retirement, health, home, cable TV, abortions, etc.? This can only end in violence.
Colorado has a total state debt of $25,681,980,195 when calculated by adding the total of outstanding debt, pension and OPEB UAAL’s, unemployment trust funds and the 2010 budget gap
http://www.statebudgetsolutions.org/publications/detail/states-hide-trillions-in-debt
That is amazing LOL
And they want to build another one from LA to SF or is that LA to LV. Whatever, it's a complete wast of money.
OMGoodness. I have no words anymore. All I can say and think is—we (and the next generations) are so screwed. Thanks for the post and ping :(
I live in the mountains west of Pueblo... I don’t think a high speed train along the I-25 corridor is financially viable.
I know, right? I looked at the DC area too and it’s extensive subway/bus system that has HORDES of riders commuting everyday from the suburbs.
Believe it or not, I think the subsidy hit 80% on that.
The rail plan should be “NONE unless it will pay for itself quickly.”
TY. Conservatives need to start equating state and federal deficits to wartime profiteering. Leftists will love that.
If you idiots in Colorado have money to burn, then you could probably pay higher taxes.
Parsons is the go to company when you want the answer you want. They never say no, and always say go, and usually that they should, at a profit, manage the construction oversight of what they said is a good idea. Plus they hire politicians wives and kids, which is nice of them. /sarc
THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Liberals just loooove regional plans and master plans. And they're absolutely furious when the rest of us don't give a hoot.
Much like the Atlanta to Chattanooga high speed rail that has been studied to death to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, Colorado tax payers will now have new a do-nothing, busy work bureaucracy to pay for......
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