The momentum for a passenger rail service through Pueblo continued as Sen. John Hickenlooper met with local leaders at the Pueblo Union Depot Thursday morning to discuss the upcoming federal infrastructure legislation that could inject the necessary funding for the project. This is a point in history where we’re going to make investments in our country’s infrastructure, probably the largest investment since Franklin Roosevelt, since World War II and transportation is going to be a big part of it,” Hickenlooper said, standing in front of the historic railroad cars stationed along the Arkansas River behind the depot. We ve got this kind of once-in-a-generation investment in transportation moving ahead of us and I wanted to come look at places where we re going to make those investments.
Point: Dave Williams
Colorado politicians are proposing a bill that implements a 19th-century solution to a 21st-century problem and, almost certainly, will be a monument only to their egos.
SB21-238 would create the “front range passenger rail district for the purpose of planning, designing, developing, financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining an interconnected passenger rail system along the front range.”
One doesn’t have to look too far to discover that these projects typically end up being government boondoggles that are plagued with cost-overruns and delayed construction schedules while being underutilized by the people.
Putting aside the many disastrous examples of other cities and states where these projects have failed to yield a return on investment, let’s look no further than the Denver Regional Transit District’s own struggling efforts to create its west light-rail line.
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