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locks

(2,012 posts) Thu Feb 13, 2014, 04:44 PM Feb 2014

CDOT and US 36 Boulder to Denver

According to the Denver Post, Boulder Camera, and TV Channels 4 and 7 CDOT has moved the second hearing (of two) to be held tonight to the old Sam's Club in Louisville because (surprise!) hundreds of citizens showed up in Westminster last night and couldn't get in to speak against the secret deal to privatize to an Australian consortium the US 36 Managed Lanes (toll lanes) Project which has been under construction since 2012.
Seems many Coloradans thought CDOT had had time to mention to lawmakers, the 100,000 commuters who travel 36 every day, and taxpayers who will pay the 425 million construction cost and toll collection that it is in the process of signing the 600-page, 50 YEAR contract with the multi-national Plenary Group which has no experience in building roads in the US.

I will go tonight and let you know if it's possible for real people, not corporations, to still have a voice.

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CDOT and US 36 Boulder to Denver (Original Post) locks Feb 2014 OP

If I recall correctly, the company can only charge tolls on the express lanes, correct? denverbill Feb 2014 #1

Sounds about par locks Feb 2014 #2

I'd almost rather pay a private company based on average speed. denverbill Feb 2014 #3

denverbill

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1. If I recall correctly, the company can only charge tolls on the express lanes, correct?

Reply to locks (Original post)

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 04:57 PM

Feb 2014

So being a private, for-profit corporation, it will be much to their benefit to have bumper to bumper traffic on the non-toll lanes at all times.

locks

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2. Sounds about par

Reply to denverbill (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 05:41 PM

Feb 2014

My good Dem friends who always vote somehow can't remember voting for any of this but remember testifying for train and light rail for the last 30 years. LOL
CDOT's Director of High Performance Transportation Enterprise: "excess toll revenues won't go into Plenary's pockets but will be redirected to future road improvements in the northwest corridor" Wonder who gets to define "excess"?

denverbill

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3. I'd almost rather pay a private company based on average speed.

Reply to locks (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 10:35 AM

Feb 2014

Why give them an incentive to have congested roads? If a private company is going to be running the roads, at least the incentive should be based on how freely they can keep traffic flowing.

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