Mayor of Colorado Says Highways Need More Money
Echoing a local fishwrap article from a year ago about raising the gas taxes because the pump price is dropping....what about when the the pump price goes back up, will they reduce the gas tax.
http://kdvr.com/2016/01/13/colorado-...-address-2016/
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The money needed most is for growth and expanding highways, and adding lanes as well as maintaining crumbling roads and bridges.
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Travel on our highways has increased 42% in the last 20 years. But the capacity of our highway system has only grown 2%. Even an English major like me can do that math. It seems we’ve discovered the formula for congestion.
Nearly all of CDOT’s budget is dedicated to maintaining our current system, which puts critical upgrades out of reach.
Add to the equation 2 million more residents projected to join us over the next 20 years, and we’ve got a math problem. Our population grew by over 100,000 last year alone, so we need to invest now to ease congestion and mobility for today and tomorrow.
We have transportation issues up and down I-25, along I-70 and other high-volume traffic corridors throughout the state.
If we’re going to get these projects done, we must find new funding sources and leverage partnerships to pay for them.
Some have suggested a version of TRANS bonds as an option, but without new revenue, that’s like trying to drive your new truck across the state with a dollar’s worth of gas.
This is a challenge that will only get more daunting as each day passes. Let’s find a way to permanently put new money toward roads so we can truly solve Colorado’s transportation problems.
