Voters in communities across the Front Range will be asked in November to approve a sales tax increase to pay for a passenger train route from Fort Collins to Pueblo.
The Front Range Passenger Rail District’s board of directors voted 14-1 on Friday to ask for a 33 cent sales tax increase on every $100 spent to raise $295 million a year for the Colorado Connector passenger train.
The district’s board made the decision during a meeting at the Transportation Technology Center, a federal railroad equipment testing facility near Pueblo…