By Tom Graham
Why is the FasTracks fiasco still with us, when the studies and reports of the regional and transportation districts themselves, the federal watchdog agency, and the advice of experienced transit experts say that bus rapid transit is superior to rail in every way? Following is the whole picture. Those who read and assimilate this analysis will have passed the definitive course on RTD and FasTracks. (more…)
If you’ve registered a vehicle lately, you may be suffering from mild sticker shock, but don’t blame the Clerk and Recorder’s Office. (more…)
RTD and its Fastracks rail system are a mess. In his June 11 radio special, John Andrews asked why. The podcast is now up. (more…)
Beginning July 1, Colorado drivers will pay higher taxes–we’re told to call them “fees”–on every vehicle every year when we renew (more…)
Greatness never goes out of date. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died last year, presented at Harvard in 1978 one of the most perceptive and sobering assessments of civilization’s ills in our lifetime. The full text is below. An oft-quoted passage, sadly truer than ever, begins: “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. (more…)
After considering Obama’s campaign promises and policy statements, one can make these disturbing prognostications. They are related (more…)
Bill “Recession” Ritter, as disgusted House Republicans now call Colorado’s chief executive, managed only a D in the Cato Institute’s (more…)
Here are my picks for director races in RTD. It’s one of Colorado’s biggest governments, and as such should have the benefit of competitive (more…)
Nope, it’s really the headlight on an oncoming train. RTD admits it won’t be able to finish FasTracks without a tax increase, (more…)