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Civil engineers give Colorado a C-minus grade on infrastructure report card, with roads and schools receiving low marks
Swift Communications ^ | 7/25/2025 | Ryan Spencer

Posted on 07/25/2025 1:15:19 PM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 07/25/2025 1:15:19 PM PDT by george76
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To: MileHi; dynachrome; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; bluejean; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


2 posted on 07/25/2025 1:16:05 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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But... but... but...marijuana is legal!


3 posted on 07/25/2025 1:17:13 PM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Caution: When you bring them here you also bring there here.)
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Civil Engineers report “everything sucks give us hundreds of billions in funding so we can fix it”


4 posted on 07/25/2025 1:17:21 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: george76

Shiny, well-designed, and well-maintained infrastructure has an effect along the lines of the broken window idea, government keeping up infrastructure and backing off on the people to where they can start and run their businesses and farms, and keep the factories and mines and stores running would go a long way to fixing America’s social issues and quality of life issues, and the general pessimism of current day life.


5 posted on 07/25/2025 1:22:48 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Colorado roads haven't deteriorated at all since at least ‘'76. They were sketchy then and are sketchy now.
6 posted on 07/25/2025 1:24:18 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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I’m no engineer but I do know that California used to be beautiful, and I don’t mean it’s views and nature, people used to marvel at the pristine and gorgeous California roads and the landscaping around them.


7 posted on 07/25/2025 1:26:38 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: SaxxonWoods

Jared Polis continues to double down on a 100 percent renewable ( interment, not reliable, expensive, may function only for a few years = hail storms ..) energy plan by 2040, despite late last year admitting his current plan is already on a dangerous course for energy ratepayers.

https://completecolorado.com/2025/07/25/gov-polis-doubling-down-100-percent-renewables/


8 posted on 07/25/2025 1:33:02 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
Colorado got a 0.0 for roads.


9 posted on 07/25/2025 1:33:10 PM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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Colorado is a sanctuary state. The illegal gets better treatment then Colorado citizens.

The current attorney general, now running for governor has an idea about car thieves: "car thieves should only be detained if they steal more than one car per month, and only then after they have stolen their fourth car. "

Since democrats came in power, Colorado has become a shithole state.

10 posted on 07/25/2025 1:38:19 PM PDT by SGCOS (If COVID doesn't kill you, the vaccines will. )
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I bet teacher quality would be F-. there are things that need to be replaced before the buildings.


11 posted on 07/25/2025 1:40:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Semper Vigilantis

Red herring


12 posted on 07/25/2025 1:49:23 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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We spent 350 million on illegals.


13 posted on 07/25/2025 1:54:21 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Wasn’t it recently a huge section of road through the mountains just collapsed?

Might have been another state...


14 posted on 07/25/2025 2:00:20 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: ansel12

Agree. Just look at the old shows that were filmed on location. L.A. looked like the place to be.


15 posted on 07/25/2025 2:04:32 PM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Caution: When you bring them here you also bring there here.)
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To: Semper Vigilantis

California looked good, looked sharp and clean, as though everything was being valued and taken care of, even many of the gardeners were Japanese, the effect was California looking glamourous even just driving the Interstates, and the California culture, music and films reflected that pride and competence and future looking, confident optimism.


16 posted on 07/25/2025 2:33:23 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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“Civil engineers give Colorado a C-minus grade on infrastructure report card, with roads and schools receiving low marks”

that’s because governments in colorado at every level have been reprogramming tax money into free-everything for illegal aliens ... our once beautiful streets, roads and highways are a shambles now due to lack of maintenance ...


17 posted on 07/25/2025 2:37:12 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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Maybe we have enough bike paths and wind mills and we can focus on roads and reliable power plants.

Just spit balling...


18 posted on 07/25/2025 2:45:01 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: george76

I would like to see what Oklahoma rates. It is one giant speed bump from one state line to the next. One of the most perplexing things about Oklahoma roads is that they will build or re-build a section of road to new standards for maybe 5 or 10 miles but flank that section, placed at random it seems, with miles of obstacle course. There is no apparent logic or plan to it. The most glaring example of this is the area adjacent to the Kirkpatrick Turnpike south entrance. Other examples are right here where I live on I-40 or US59.


19 posted on 07/25/2025 2:52:07 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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The schools should receive a good grade for foreign languages ... other than English.


20 posted on 07/25/2025 2:57:52 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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