Activists and other residents are fighting proposals to widen major metro highways and thoroughfares as the Denver Regional Council of Governments considers how to use federal transportation funding for the next 25 years.
Local governments and agencies, including the Colorado Department of Transportation and Denver’s suburban counties, are asking DRCOG for dozens of widening projects in the face of growing population expectations, according to Jacob Rigor, director of the DRCOG Transportation Planning and Operations Division.
“We are adding a significant number of people by 2050 over a significant geographical area,” Rigor says. “We do think of all of our projects as really optimizing the use of these dollars. …That looks different in an outlying suburb than it does in the middle of Denver.”…