colorado transportation
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On the 2017 legislative session, transportation lobbyist sees hope in the wreckage
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Sandra Hagen Solin, spokesperson for the Fix Colorado Roads economic-development coalition, worked the legislative trenches all year to bring Capitol leaders to a place where they could make a deal to pass a major transportation funding proposal. After months of back and forth, leadership this session brought out House Bill 1242, which failed spectacularly. Critics…
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#Coleg photo of the week: ‘The Deal’ still tops the list
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Photos of elected officials doing elected official things circulate among politics watchers. People talk about them for a while and then they fall off the radar. Gov. John Hickenlooper last fall showing off his Trump-Sanders socks. Ted Cruz in the shining moment when he took the stage after sweeping the Colorado Republican Party presidential nomination,…
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Hill on a possible upside to Colorado transportation woes: Let’s embrace autonomous vehicles!
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State Sen. Owen Hill is not for letting the crisis of Colorado’s inadequate transportation go to waste. There may or may not be a transportation funding bill passed this legislative session or any legislative session. The population is booming and the roads are crumbling. There won’t be any ski train coming any time soon. Coloradans…