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Transit and Transportation

April 2, 2010 Colorado high speed rail could cost $21.1 Billion - The Denver Post
February 8, 2010 Feds offer bailout of Denver light rail - Denver Post
February 1, 2010 Editorial: Streetcars not the answer to state transit woes - Denver Post
January 29, 2010 FREX refuses to quietly fade away - Springs Gazette
January 8, 2010 Bus riders adapt to curtailed service - Colorado Springs Gazette
January 1, 2010 Amtrak tries to skirt blame for Ski Train derailment - Denver Post
December 31, 2009 State plowing policy becomes bone of contention - Denver Post
December 28, 2009 Ski train derailed by federal red tape - Denver Post
December 16, 2009 Oops: Denver light rail comes up $1 billion short - Denver Post
November 15, 2009 City pay-shifting plan hits a pothole - Colorado Springs Gazette
November 15, 2009 Transit workers will lose jobs Dec. 31 - Colorado Springs Gazette
November 10, 2009 Groups may join forces to address paratransit issues - Colorado Springs Gazette
November 6, 2009 Transit union moves to protect pension - Colorado Springs Gazette
November 6, 2009 Denver's troubled transit system makes The New York Times - New York Times
October 24, 2009 Road less traveled becomes county's top paving priority - Colorado Springs Gazette
September 17, 2009 Denver's runaway train learning lessons the expensive way - Denver Post
September 6, 2009 Only $21 billion? What a bargain - Denver Post
September 4, 2009 Dems diss GOP road-funding idea - Denver Post
August 22, 2009 Light rail or black hole? - Denver Post
August 13, 2009 Denver's "model" light rail system drowning in red ink - Denver Post
June 22, 2009 "Driver's rights" flier increases tensions between cyclists and motorists - Boulder Camera
June 19, 2009 Light rail advocates look to Denver as a model - New York Times
May 13, 2009 Colorado has its own "bridge to nowhere" - Denver Post
May 1, 2009 Editor: Another conductor needed for the runaway train - Denver Post
April 26, 2009 Runaway light rail system poised to seize more land - Denver Post
March 13, 2009 Runaway transit system heading straight for taxpayers - Denver Post
March 8, 2009 Bring back The Rocky! Bring Back the Rocky! - Denver Post
March 6, 2009 Hick beats fleet retreat on airport access toll - Denver Post
March 5, 2009 Tolls for airport access considered, as way to fund runaway transit project - Denver Post
February 19, 2009 Transit tax $2 million below projections - Colorado Springs Gazette
February 15, 2009 City not too broke to subsidize commutes - Colorado Springs Gazette
February 9, 2009 Transit users invited to complain about possible cuts - Colorado Springs Gazette
February 4, 2009 700 words, but no mention of "taxes" - Denver Post
February 3, 2009 Heavily-subsidized FREX may fall to budget cuts - Colorado Springs Gazette
January 26, 2009 If it won't fly as a "tax," sell it as a jobs program - Colorado Springs Gazette
January 26, 2009 Mystery of endless roadwork finally solved - Colorado Springs Gazette
January 17, 2009 Uncle Sam comes to the rescue of runaway transit system - Denver Business Journal
January 10, 2009 Let freedom ring - Colorado Springs Gazette
December 31, 2008 Editorial: Taxing and groveling the answer to state's infrastructure challenges - Denver Post
December 16, 2008 Ritter: Feds can't be counted on to fill all Colorado's potholes - Rocky Mountain News
December 10, 2008 Statehouse can't wait on voters to approve transportation funding - Denver Post
November 26, 2008 Editorial: Supporters of runaway transit project have heads in the sand - Rocky Mountain News
November 25, 2008 Light rail riding cost-prediction rollercoaster - Denver Post
November 21, 2008 Trucker tax eyed at statehouse - Grand Junction Sentinel
November 13, 2008 Highway spending to be sold as -- what else? -- a jobs program - Denver Post
November 13, 2008 Highway spending to be sold as -- what else? -- a jobs program - Denver Post
November 9, 2008 City unlikely to receive transportation project grant from CDOT - Colorado Springs Gazette
November 4, 2008 Counties rebellious over road funding, but federal help is on the way, Salazar says - Denver Post
November 1, 2008 Transit funds flat, but not falling - Colorado Springs Gazette
October 29, 2008 Transit train wreck: FasTracks extension hinges on federal funds - Boulder Camera
October 28, 2008 Highway plan now being sold as a jobs program - Durango Herald
October 24, 2008 Transportation funding doomsayers take show on the road - Durango Herald
October 14, 2008 Hick vows to finish light rail,come hell or higher taxes - Denver Post
October 9, 2008 Transportation panel sees a crisis; Colorado yawns - Boulder Camera
October 4, 2008 Panel keeps singing the blues over road "crisis," but few are tuning in - Colorado Springs Gazette
October 1, 2008 Boulderites fight to keep their subsidized commutes - Boulder Camera
September 30, 2008 Political pressure, not market forces, will continue to set RTD ticket prices - Denver Post
September 26, 2008 There's no free commute: Without higher taxes, light rail won't reach Boulder - Boulder Camera
September 24, 2008 Without more taxes, light rail system will hit the wall - Rocky Mountain News
September 23, 2008 Ritter winding up to deliver road tax pitch in 2009 - Colorado Springs Gazette
September 23, 2008 Runaway train: Options weighed for dealing with FasTracks crisis - Denver Post
September 22, 2008 Column: Save the planet, subsidize our commutes - Denver Post
September 19, 2008 Boulderites balk at transit hike; think everyone else owes them a cheap ride - Boulder Daily Camera
September 19, 2008 Faltering FasTracks to come up short in Adams County - Denver Post
September 9, 2008 Bill in the works to boost state highway funding -- by dipping into general funds - Grand Junction Sentinel
September 8, 2008 Randal OToole: It's time to admit that FasTraks is a boondoggle - Rocky Mountain News
September 7, 2008 Western Slope group changes position on ballot measure - Denver Post
September 6, 2008 Editorial: Metro cities in denial about transit system crisis - Rocky Mountain News
August 26, 2008 Jumping ship? Head of Denver's troubled FasTracks departs for private sector - Denver Post
August 22, 2008 Editorial: Maybe feds will help bailout financially-strapped FasTracks - Denver Post
August 16, 2008 Front Range high speed rail under study - Colorado Springs Gazette
August 16, 2008 Golf carts aren't just for fairways anymore - Rocky Mountain News
August 14, 2008 Fountain will have to start paying for bus service in 2009 - Colorado Springs Gazette
August 6, 2008 Go for it: Local leaders threaten vigilante road repairs if state doesn't act - Denver Post
July 31, 2008 Column: Board member defends troubled RTD transit project - Denver Post
July 24, 2008 Effort to derail runaway transit project may shift to the ballot box - Rocky Mountain News
July 23, 2008 Transit system in serious trouble, but officials fret over rider "equity" - Denver Post
July 15, 2008 Eagle County realizes that "free" bus service costs money - Aspen Times
July 1, 2008 Federal bailout for off-the-tracks transit project - Rocky Mountain News
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