Scrambling to rescue Colorado’s beloved Bustang intercity bus service, state transportation officials plan to tap revenues raised from vehicle drivers whizzing along tolled express lanes on interstates 25 and 70.
Those toll revenues — about $62 million a year from I-25 and I-70, not including fines paid by violators caught crossing double white lines — have been earmarked mostly for highway construction projects over the next decade. The projects include the overhaul of I-70 west of Denver and the proposed expansion of Interstate 270.
But the Bustang “has become a backbone of the state’s transit operations along the interstates,” giving Coloradans “more transportation choices to get where they need to go,” Colorado Department of Transportation Director Shoshana Lew said Friday…