This story was first published at Colorado Newsline.
DENVER | Officials with Colorado’s Front Range Passenger Rail District will return to the negotiating table with their railroad partner next week fresh off a major victory at the ballot box, where the district’s voters approved a sales tax hike to fund its plans for a long-awaited restoration of passenger service along the Interstate 25 corridor.
Voters in the 31 Front Range municipalities that make up the district approved Issue 7A, imposing a 0.333% district-wide sales tax to fund the Colorado Connector service, known as CoCo, by a margin of 55% to 45%…