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Originally Posted by COS
The two lane stretch is 18m from the Monument exit to just south of the Plum Creek exit. If this is being executed as "early-action", I would love to see 4 lanes on each side and feasibly eliminate the need for any future expansion.
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This is what I call playing political football... and hopefully it works.
Over the last year many Republicans (especially the C-Springs crowd) have complained that if CDOT weren't spending money on Bustang and for a new CDOT HQ they could afford to move forward with this project.
Not even close. Perhaps not a mandate but I believe that CDOT is encouraged to allocate some $'s to transit. IIRC they helped the Roaring Fork Valley get their BRT project done.
With CDOT having the funds, they were good in spending money for an early design phase for this project. They coupled this with some positive PR on the project, in effect passing the ball to the Republicans to find a needed new revenue stream towards the $9 billion backlog that CDOT is sitting on.
The two political sides are threatening to reach a compromise which could then be submitted to voters for approval. Incidentally,
The Coloradoan, two days ago ran a story that "No," C-Springs did not leapfrog NoCo for I-25 expansion and that both projects have equal priority. CDOT just needs the revenue stream so they can sell bonds to kickstart much needed ketchup.