The Front Range Passenger Rail District promises Colorado residents it has enough money to build out and launch round-trip passenger train service from Denver to Fort Collins three times a day by 2029.
But voters in several Front Range cities will be asked in November to increase their sales taxes by about 33 cents per $100 spent to expand the service further — more trips and with a stop as far south as Pueblo.
Here’s who is supporting and opposing the measure, where the sales tax increase would be imposed. and how much money the tax hike is projected to generate.
What Ballot Issue 7A would do
The rail measure asks 2.4 million voters in about 30 communities from 13 counties that would be served by Front Range passenger rail service to approve a 0.333% sales tax increase on top of other state and local sales taxes they already pay…