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Colorado’s electric vehicle landscape gets a big jolt from VW settlement

Mar 24, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

DENVER – Colorado is investing in electricity with its plan to spend the state’s $68 million share of the money Volkswagen paid for rigging some diesel VW vehicles to pass emissions tests. The plan was submitted to the courts this week, and the state officially can ask for its money after 30 days. The Colorado…
House Speaker Duran sets Tuesday town hall on Colorado’s growth

Oct 7, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran is putting on a town hall Tuesday night to chat with the experts and community members about the challenges of the state’s population growth. The state Demographer’s Office said Colorado’s population was about 5 million in 2010 and could reach 8 million by 2040. The town hall is from 7…
Only public hearing for $68 million green transportation plan is Monday afternoon

Sep 18, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado has a transportation plan on the table to spend $68 million on mass transit, greener fuels and a network of charging stations for electric vehicles. The only public hearing on the proposal is Monday afternoon in Denver. The money has to go for clear-air programs related to vehicle exhaust, according to the $14.7 billion…
Colorado eyes greener-powered travel with Volkswagen settlement

Aug 29, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Environmental groups are cheering on a plan to spend Colorado’s $68 million lawsuit settlement from Volkswagen on green-powered solutions to getting around. Under the draft, $18 million for transit buses, another $18 million for trucks and buses that run on alternative fuels, $10 million to electric vehicle charging stations plus administration and other clean-air spending.…
What if we could improve mobility without adding more lanes?

Jul 18, 2017

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Will Toor

Anyone who travels on highways in the Front Range knows that congestion is a major problem along the front range and that it is getting worse. The traditional solution, expanding the highway to relieve congestion, is unaffordable and ineffective. The Colorado Department of Transportation has said it needs an additional $1 billion per year to…
Tolling on an existing I-25 lane is one way to stretch Colorado’s transportation dollars

Jul 17, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

A new report from the Boulder-based Southwest Energy Efficiency Project asserts tolling could help drive traffic remedies on Interstate 25 through Denver. The idea would be to take an existing lane and put on price on it. People who want to pay could use it, similar to the high-occupancy toll lane on U.S. 36 between…
Toor: State funding for public transit absolutely needed

Mar 5, 2017

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Will Toor

I am writing to refute Randall O’Toole’s recent guest opinion column claiming that there is no need for state funding for public transit. His opinion criticizes a recent report I authored for the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project showing that Colorado invests less than one cent per day per person of state funds in public transit,…
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…