May 13, 2012

SandBoxBlogs: Aspen Daily News "Transportation, recreation, agitation"

Good report from Chad Abraham.  Up on the Aspen Daily News.

Just think.

All this just so we can have still more busses, running out of tricked-out transit sites, with state-of-the-art 'clean' energy.........yet still carry less than a 25% capacity load of bodies all day, every day up and down the valley.  Subsidized by millions upon millions of dollars from local, state and federal taxpayers.

Great cash cow, if you're powerful enough to take it.  Talk about a boondoggle!

"There's always more money for RFTA."
  
Chad Abraham:
"...Progress is never easy — projects involving a new recreation center and the realignment of roads in El Jebel are being scrutinized by five jurisdictions — and BRT is no different. The transportation authority has tried to soften the impact, dubbing the nation’s first rural bus rapid transit system VelicoRFTA, but those dealing with the agency says it has little problem playing hardball to get what it wants....."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

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