Let’s give due credit to the well-oiled PR machine that is toiling to create enough buzz around the promised Front Range Passenger Rail project to snooker voters in 31 Colorado cities into approving a 0.33% sales tax.
Orchestrated by the usual army of consultants, barrages of news releases have been advancing a succession of community meetings to pitch the scheme to enthusiasts. The most recent “roundtable discussion” was in Colorado Springs on Saturday.
Then there are the influencers hired by the Front Range Passenger Rail District — as revealed in recent news reports — to tout the envisioned train service via a social media blitz…