Voters in the Front Range Passenger Rail District will decide in November whether to create a sales and use tax and let the district borrow to build and run passenger rail from Fort Collins to Pueblo.
Ballot Issue 7A, referred by the district board, would establish a new 0.333% sales and use tax in order to generate $295 million a year and permit the jurisdiction to take on $580 million in debt to build a passenger rail line connecting several communities along the Front Range.
The measure comes after the district set a starter service for three daily round trips between Denver and Fort Collins in 2029, paid for with existing state and Regional Transportation District commitments…