Tag: Highway Funding
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EDITORIAL: A way around Colorado’s highway funding roadblock?
For a while, it looked as if Colorado finally had found a way to fund its long-neglected, crumbling highways: sidestep the legislature with a ballot proposal. Then, ruling Democrats at the Capitol sabotaged it. Initiative 175 would guarantee funding for Colorado’s deteriorating roads, bridges and highways by tapping $700 million in revenue from transportation-related taxes…
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EDITORIAL: Will Dems run highway funding off the road?
Proponents of a ballot initiative to guarantee funding for Colorado’s deteriorating roads, bridges and highways announced Tuesday they submitted more than 188,000 voter signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office. The welcome news puts Initiative 175 in prime position to make November’s ballot. The signatures still need certification by the secretary of state, but it’s…
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EDITORIAL: A ray of hope for more highway funding?
Motorists weary of Colorado’s crumbling and congested highways might appreciate at least a glimmer of hope that our starry-eyed legislature someday will come back down to earth and give our beleaguered transportation grid the funding it needs. That glimmer may have arrived last week when a state Senate committee passed an obscure resolution urging more…