The fanciful idea of Front Range Passenger Rail continues to be touted at public forums up and down the Front Range. The tour made its latest whistle stop last week at the Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center in Colorado Springs.
It’s a pipe dream that won’t go away. Unfortunately, it also continues to divert attention and resources from essential transportation infrastructure — i.e., highways — that is cramped and crumbling. In other words, transportation solutions overwhelmingly car-driving Coloradans actually need.
The latest chapter in the push for a Front Range Passenger Rail is a potential ballot measure for a sales tax to fund the envisioned service. It could appear on your ballot this year if you live in one of the dozen-plus communities along the proposed rail line’s north-south corridor — all part of a new district with taxing powers created for the scheme by the legislature in 2021…