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Colorado transportation bill

posted Friday, Jan. 23, 2009 3:58pm

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Is the newly-proposed transportation bill going to solve Colorado's highway problems?

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Josh
Friday, January 23, 2009 › 8pm
Maybe raising the gas tax with finally get people to realise the full cost of maintaining our auto-dominated infrastructure and begin to invest in public transit alternatives in this state.

skip guarini
Friday, January 23, 2009 › 8:11pm
If you examine the CDOT budget, it is clear that a considerable amount of money is spent each year on projects that have little or no impact on the overall condtion of the state's roads and bridges. During normal economic conditions spending a few million dollars on a pedestrian bridge in Greeley is fine. However, so called "make work" projects need to be shelved until our roads and briges are safe. CDOT must examine its budget priorities before it is given any more money from gas tax increases or plate fees. Trim the fat, get lean, budget smart and stop wasting a significant part of the budget on proejcts that are not necessary at this critical time. We've been told for decades that our roads and bridges need repair. Throwing more money at a borken system won't fix a single road.

jestbill
Saturday, January 24, 2009 › 10am
Agreed: gas tax money should go to highways.
On the other hand, general revenues should not be spent on highway repair.
If a NEW highway needs to be built, use general funds, but if the people who USE the highways can't pay to have 'em fixed out of taxes designated for that purpose, close them.
The point was made that taxes and fees should not be raised when the economy is bad. So why were they not raised a coupla years ago when the economy was good?

Mark Burgoon
Friday, May 8, 2009 › 12:01am
By that logic, repeal the drunk driving laws. People have been ignoring those restrictions since cars were invented. Don't even get me started on laws prohibiting rape and murder! No, driving with cell phone, alone among the driving distractions that have been discussed, has been demonstrated in multiple studies to be as hazardous to attentive driving and safety as driving while drunk. Both practices are popular targets of drivers that want to simply get somewhere safely. Why don't we minimize the inattentive driving, and the road rage that slow cell phone-wielding drivers employ in the fast lane, by turning off the phones and concentrating on driving those three ton missiles of steel and gasoline. Lives matter more than the immediacy of those trivial conversations!

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