Hey, I know. How about a bullet train/high speed rail syste...... Oh.
PING.
I worked Colorado’s State Senators on this. There was no interest due to conflicting political interests.
Gigantic waste of money, as all rail transit projects are.
If a tree fell in the forest......
Study suggests high speed transit system could provide huge amounts of cash from public coffers to politicians and connected government contractors.
Well if it would get all the damn skiers and skis out of the airport and off the existing shuttles and rental cars there would surely be a benefit to the rest of those who travel.
Elon Musk’s hyperloop: Now that makes sense.
I live in the Western Slope. The town is already overrun in the summer. Bumper to bumper all the time. I-70 has been closed at times 3 of the last 4 weekends do to some major accidents. We don’t need any more people. Go somewhere else.
Denver Int’l Airport to Eagle County Regional Airport via high speed rail requires transit thru the Moffat tunnel and Grandby (current AMTRAK route) would be a very circuitous route to Eagle. Unless they are proposing a more direct route which would have to be constructed (at enormous cost) this isn’t much of a high speed corridor plan. The highway traffic on I-70 is very heavy ... particularly on Friday thru mid-day Saturday westbound from Denver and Sunday afternoon eastbound returning to Denver, particularly during ski season.
What’s so funny is the Liberals have become all about the choo-choo train - which was critical in the 19th century of course but matters really not at all in the 21st-century
They try to use the term “high speed rail” all the time which is absolutely meaningless because it’s far too dangerous to be traveling around at 160 miles an hour on the ground unless it’s a very contained environment
Like urban japan
Public works projects have been a specialty of liberals and unions for millennia if not multiple millennia
Road repair road relocation adding lanes re-paving
So they’re trying to add the choo-choo train back which is another big boondoggle for the witness here in California where they’ve spent $200 billion and not one piece of track has been laid
Are you channeling Willie Green?
Oh look! another boondoggle that won’t pay for itself, that will have to be supported by the taxpayer and which people won’t use. This only puts money into the coffers of political cronies and makes the flying unicorn brigade happy.
Another fraud to facilitate the siphoning off of billions of dollars to a black hole where trillions of taxpayers dollars have already gone.
B.S. and you can bet the construction industry and their unions have open or secret funding to the outfit that did the study.
What will rapid transit as proposed do, more than anything else long term?
It will ENCOURAGE development along the proposed corridor, which will explode the population along the corridor and over the long run DEFEAT the idea of alleviating congestion.
Congestion can actually discourage the cause of congestion, convincing people and business to move out of the congested areas.
just no...nada....NEVER....please stop mucking up America.....its bad enough that we have to put up with these ugly wind turbines everywhere look.
Why stop at Eagle instead of Grand Junction?
If there ever was a high-speed rail line out west that makes sense it would be the LA/San Bernardino to Las Vegas run, as anyone who has been on I15 on a weekend can testify. From Barstow on there would be little in the way to go around. Cheap, easy construction. So why hasn’t it been done?
Easy - it actually doesn’t make sense.
Although I wonder what it would be like if it was there all along.
“On a warm summer evening
On a train bound for nowhere...”
h/t Kenny Rogers