Denver November 2004 Election
The Denver Post editorial staff is blasting the Colorado Department of Transportation in an editorial today [February 21, 2004, "CDOT in the manger"] over their recently announced concerns with FasTracks. From the editorial, "Enough is enough. It's time to put some limit on the Transportation Commission's fleecing of metro taxpayers. DRCOG has proposed that CDOT return at least 90 percent of the taxes collected in this area to meet this region's own pressing transportation needs. The Post favors a compromise plan by Aurora Mayor Ed Tauer that would ensure that at least 80 percent of earmarked transportation taxes be returned to the region that paid them. That would still allow rural areas to be heavily subsidized but would provide at least a semblance of fairness to metro taxpayers. The Post also urges RTD to stick to its guns and run the proposed light-rail line down West Sixth Avenue all the way to the Jefferson County government center in Golden. CDOT is balking on letting RTD use that right-of-way because it thinks that maybe, someday, somehow, it might want to build some additional highway lanes there."
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