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Inside Hickenlooper's Plan to Make Colorado Bike-Friendly ( using highway gas taxes )
5280 - Denver's Magazine ^ | September 21 2015 | Kelly Baines

Posted on 09/21/2015 5:52:31 PM PDT by george76

Last week, Governor John Hickenlooper announced a $100 million plan to make Colorado “the best state for biking.”

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Of the total $100 million, about 70 percent will come from CDOT

(Excerpt) Read more at 5280.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: cdot; colorado; dieseltaxes; gasolinetaxes; gastaxes; hickenlooper; highspeedrail; highspeedtrains; tabor; taxes
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1 posted on 09/21/2015 5:52:31 PM PDT by george76
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Why not with cannabis taxes?


2 posted on 09/21/2015 5:54:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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Yeah, they're going to put heating tubes in all the roads.

Dickenlicker must be drunk, again...

3 posted on 09/21/2015 5:54:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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Are motor vehicle related taxes required to be dedicated to road maintenance (for motor vehicles)?


4 posted on 09/21/2015 5:57:09 PM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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To: kiryandil

Lickingpooper?


5 posted on 09/21/2015 5:59:06 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck ( NOTE TO RNC: I will not be voting for another Bush. Ever. No matter what his last name is.)
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To: West Texas Chuck

Chickenchoker.


6 posted on 09/21/2015 6:00:20 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Olog-hai

...Friends around the campfire and everybody’s high...

The pipe gets passed around in Hickenloopers office constantly.


7 posted on 09/21/2015 6:01:33 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: MortMan

When there was the rule of law, now the politicians likely put in loop holes for their favorite projects [ union run buses and trains, plus green cars that do not pay gasoline taxes, etc. ] that they want us to pay for.


8 posted on 09/21/2015 6:05:28 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Bike lanes should be toll roads.


9 posted on 09/21/2015 6:08:09 PM PDT by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: West Texas Chuck
Lickingpooper?

I like that one, and I'll bet the governor likes to do it, too. :)

10 posted on 09/21/2015 6:08:15 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: george76

Two problems with a bike friendly Colorado. 1 Mountains, 2 that little issue with the 25 feet of snow.


11 posted on 09/21/2015 6:08:55 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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Roadies need licensing just like motorists...many clearly think the rules of the road don’t apply to them, but the laws of physics certainly do.

Keep on running those STOP signs clowns...

A special “fee” or tax on road bikes should be implemented as well in order to get them to pay for this instead of heaping it all on the motorists.


12 posted on 09/21/2015 6:11:31 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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Chickenpooper is doing all he can to break the Tax Payers Bill Of Rights. Colorado is doing fair in spite of Obama which must frustrate Chickenpooper no end as he wants to destroy Colorado.
13 posted on 09/21/2015 6:20:55 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Of the total $100 million, about 70 percent will come from CDOT ...

Let me guess ... of the $100 million, 70% will be spent in Denver and Boulder.

14 posted on 09/21/2015 6:21:34 PM PDT by kitchen
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To: MileHi; dynachrome; Balata; bboop; Benito Cereno; BulletBobCo; Carley; ColoCowgirl; ...

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


15 posted on 09/21/2015 6:40:19 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Is he going to bulldoze all the mountains?
‘Cause the only parts that are worth seeing are too steep for any but the most dedicated bicyclists.


16 posted on 09/21/2015 6:47:24 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Some enterprising individual should come up with chains for bike tires and also a small snow shovel that fastens to the front. LOL.


17 posted on 09/21/2015 6:47:41 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: VTenigma
Two solutions: 1) a compact cassette and a 50/34 setup and 2) a fat bike.

Yes I rode today and I pay gas/highway and property taxes here in CO, but I suspect my posting will bring on 10 posts of the video of the dude with the diesel downshifting whenever he passes bikes going up a pass and 40 posts of "you should ride on the sidewalk". Oh well.
18 posted on 09/21/2015 6:47:53 PM PDT by PrairieDawg
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To: Grams A
There is a companion race to the Iditarod on bicycles:


19 posted on 09/21/2015 6:49:28 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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Where’s their short lycra pants and tee shirt? Bunch of sissies.


20 posted on 09/21/2015 6:50:57 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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