Funding Roads Or Public Transit?

The Rocky Mountain News presents a point-counterpoint over a Colorado bill that proposes to divert funds into a "congestion relief fund" to be spent on roads rather than public transit.

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February 10, 2003, 10:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Why should a huge government agency charged with improving metro-area transportation spend 100 percent of its budget on 2 percent of the problem? Obviously it shouldn't. That's the logic of my proposal to make the Regional Transportation District relinquish a modest part of its tax revenues to the other 98 percent of local travel: public roadways carrying private vehicles."

Thanks to Transport Policy Listserv

FULL STORY: Point/Counterpoint: Cash detour

Saturday, February 8, 2003 in The Rocky Mountain News

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