Denver November 2004 Election
Most of the speakers at yesterday's hearing on the FasTracks proposal were in favor of the expansion of RTD's reach, according to the Rocky Mountain News [January 22, 2004, "FasTracks gets vocal support"]. I guess that means they are also in favor of the increase in sales tax that should be on the November ballot. From the article, "Backers of the RTD plan to ask voters this fall to approve a 0.4-cent increase in the transit tax - now at 0.6 cents per dollar - to pay for FasTracks. They need to gather signatures to put it on the ballot in the seven-county district, but that won't happen unless DRCOG determines that the plan is feasible. That determination is scheduled to come in an April 21 vote by the DRCOG board."
Here's the coverage from the Denver Post [January 22, 2004, "Group: Poll finds support for FasTracks"]. From the article, "A group of Denver-area business and civic leaders has done early private polling showing RTD's $4.7 billion FasTracks transit expansion plan should get a favorable reception from voters in November. 'We're really encouraged that this thing is going to go,' said Peter Neukirch, president of Citizens for FasTracks Success, a nonprofit group set up to promote the plan. Neukirch, former president of the Southeast Business Partnership, said his group raised about $50,000 from business leaders to conduct the poll and set up focus groups on the FasTracks proposal. The group has hired political consulting and lobbying firm CRL Associates Inc. and its chief executive, Maria Garcia Berry, to plan the campaign to win voter approval in the seven-county metro area for a FasTracks tax increase."
I didn't find a link to a "FasTracks Success" website but the organization is mentioned by the Sierra Club and Smartgrowth online.
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