FASTRACKS

Lawmakers and policy people who advance private-sector solutions for public-service needs talk about competition– competition like maybe the kind we got with the Colorado Northwest Parkway deal signed in 2007, where the state is legally bound not to build or improve any roads that might compete with the Parkway for the next hundred years. If [...]

The Denver Community Planning and Development Department will begin to introduce its proposed new zoning code to officials and area residents this month, a process that will continue through the fall and that will include public meetings and presentations in neighborhoods throughout the city.

It’s still unclear just how much of the $90.2 million in federal stimulus money headed Colorado’s way for urban transit will go to RTD’s FasTracks commuter and light-rail, but what is abundantly clear is it won’t be enough.

Local rail and public transit enthusiasts are in for a cold slap of reality after the historic signing of the $787 billion economic recovery plan.

During Tuesday’s visit to Denver with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden said the federal stimulus bill will be a big boost to mass transit in the United States, with funding impacts for commuter rail projects from Colorado to Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor.