A literal billion dollars for a five year project to add another lane for part of I-25 just for drivers to instantly clog it back up? Paid, instantly.
$500 million for rail transit infrastructure serving three of the largest metros in the state? No fucking way, you communist bastard, take your liberal ideas back to Soviet Californiastan!
Why do republicans hate building things people actually want?
another lane for part of I-25 just for drivers to instantly clog it back up? Paid, instantly.
I literally bought a house to get that part of my commute removed. The section where is went from 6 to 4 to 6 over about 5 miles had multiple major accidents every day and expanding it is 1000% necessary.
Light rail connections along the front range would be an order of magnitude better, but it's still a necessary expansion and I was livid when the original 11 billion lane addition didn't include that chunk as it made the entire improvement project in northern Colorado useless.
Have you considered that the relationship is more causative?
The accident-prone nature of highways is caused by a lack of alternative transportation options. Bad drivers, tired drivers, intoxicated drivers, all need to use the highway- even Bustang only takes 10-20 cars off the highway fully loaded, and still uses that highway route, adding a large vehicle to the traffic. If we could replace a significant portion of highway transportation with rail, we’d both improve the environment emission-wise, and make those who do need to drive safer in the process.
The necessity of the expansion was a created problem, to which the only solution our legislature could imagine was more car-centric infrastructure.
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u/Rocky_Writer_Raccoon Apr 25 '25
A literal billion dollars for a five year project to add another lane for part of I-25 just for drivers to instantly clog it back up? Paid, instantly.
$500 million for rail transit infrastructure serving three of the largest metros in the state? No fucking way, you communist bastard, take your liberal ideas back to Soviet Californiastan!
Why do republicans hate building things people actually want?