Tag: front range passenger rail
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EDITORIAL: No to ‘CoCo’ — the white elephant on rails
Let’s give due credit to the well-oiled PR machine that is toiling to create enough buzz around the promised Front Range Passenger Rail project to snooker voters in 31 Colorado cities into approving a 0.33% sales tax. Orchestrated by the usual army of consultants, barrages of news releases have been advancing a succession of community…
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Community roundtable on passenger rail comes to Colorado Springs
The Colorado Rail Passenger Association is hosting an informational event Saturday on the future of the Front Range Passenger Rail project and a ballot measure coming to voters this fall. The event will include a roundtable discussion with association members and members of Coloradans for Coco. Also at the roundtable will be Jeff Thormodsgaard, vice…
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‘CoCo’ would take taxpayers for a ride | Jon Caldara
Colorado wants taxpayers to spend another $4.73 billion on passenger rail. Don’t worry. They have a plan. Which is a little like your brother-in-law announcing he’s launching another exciting restaurant venture after his last three restaurants ended in bankruptcy. Please. Tell me where to send the check. This week the Front Range Passenger Rail District…
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Newest Front Range Passenger Rail plan includes second Colorado Springs station
The latest plan for a passenger train connecting the Colorado Front Range will have two stops in Colorado Springs, not just one. According to Front Range Passenger Rail District General Manager Sal Pace, expanding passenger train service – dubbed the Colorado Connector or “CoCo” – will include both reviving the downtown station and adding a…
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Newest Front Range Passenger Rail plan includes second Colorado Springs station
The latest plan for a passenger train connecting the Colorado Front Range will have two stops in Colorado Springs, not just one. According to Front Range Passenger Rail District General Manager Sal Pace, expanding passenger train service – dubbed the Colorado Connector or “CoCo” – will include both reviving the downtown station and adding a…
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Front Range Passenger Rail plan includes Broncos, Summit FC special stations
$6 million in public funds to power preballot outreach for proposed rail funding tax measure The Front Range Passenger Rail District on Monday unveiled a draft delivery plan for the proposed express passenger train linking communities along the Interstate 25 corridor from Fort Collins to Pueblo. The rail service using mostly existing freight rail lines…
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EDITORIAL: A needed reassessment for Colorado public transit
You rarely have to fight for a seat if you ride the Denver metro area’s Regional Transportation District (RTD). On plenty of routes you might have a bus all to yourself — or even an entire light-rail train. The same goes for Mountain Metropolitan Transit in the state’s No. 2 metro area, Colorado Springs. On…
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Gov. Polis touts rail deal with no new taxes, but Initiative 175 could reroute money
Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday touted a new agreement between the BNSF Railway and the Front Range Passenger Rail that would deliver three daily round-trip passenger trains between Denver and Fort Collins with no new taxes and at about half the cost of earlier estimates. But a measure possibly headed for the November ballot could…
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Passenger train service from Denver to Fort Collins? | Cronin and Loevy
A “Joint Service” plan is being developed that would bring passenger rail service from Denver north to Fort Collins by 2029. The passenger trains would be paid for with existing funds from the Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) and other Colorado agencies that are working to institute passenger train service in Colorado. No voter-approved tax…
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EDITORIAL: ‘CoCo’ can’t repair Colorado’s crumbling roads
Woo-hoo! The ballyhooed Front Range passenger rail service now has a name — “Colorado Connector,” or “CoCo” for short — and its small circle of enthusiasts is superexcited. If only they could muster even a fraction as much interest in fixing and expanding our state’s crumbling roads and highways — which consistently rank among the…