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Denver Council priorities could cost $1.5B

Feb 10, 2017

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Faced with one of the fastest growth rates among major U.S. cities nationwide, Denver City Council has identified a range of priorities and goals to help guide budgeting decisions and to decide policy priority areas. Those include more than $1 billion in infrastructure needs and projects alone. Each year, the Council holds a retreat to…

Study: Public transit getting left by the roadside in Colorado

Feb 3, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

More food for thought as state lawmakers gird for an epic push to forge a transportation-funding plan: A report released by the Boulder-based Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, or SWEEP, says Colorado is ranked 29th among states in per capita funding for public transit, investing just one-twentieth of the national average in the likes of buses and light rail. From SWEEP’s press…

Colorado Sen. Zenzinger stays in the middle of the road in transit interview

Jan 24, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

State legislatures are about to embark in tough negotiations on how to raise billions of dollars for transportation. How much of that goes into transit is expected to be a sticking point for Republicans. So when Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, a Democrat from Arvada who sits on the Senate Transportation Committee, gives a lengthy Q&A to…

UPDATED: Hickenlooper’s proposed $28.5B Colorado budget affects transit, health care

Nov 1, 2016

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JAMES ANDERSON The Associated Press

Colorado’s transportation, education and health care spending will not grow as hoped for by Gov. John Hickenlooper under a proposed $28.5 billion budget for the 2017-2018 fiscal year that he sent to lawmakers Tuesday. The proposed budget is 3.3 percent larger than this year’s, and it includes requests to use marijuana tax dollars for affordable…