Programs designed to improve Colorado’s air quality are taking the biggest hit from a significant federal take-back of transportation funds that occurred at the end of September.
Despite efforts by Colorado lawmakers, the federal government took back $114.7 million in transportation funding authority from Colorado just before midnight on Wednesday.
Officials from the Colorado Department of Transportation said it may still be a few days before…
Six of Colorado’s seven representatives in Washington, D.C., signed onto a letter Wednesday asking Congress to suspend the state’s obligation to pay back more than one hundred million dollars in transportation funds, a sum that amounts to roughly 25 percent of the stimulus money received by the Colorado Department of Transportation for highways this year.
Few know the condition of the state’s highways and roads better than the director of the Colorado Department of Transportation, Russell George. He commutes to Denver from his Rifle home almost every weekend, more than 400 miles round trip on…
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