SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent/Your Letters "Condemnation as bad as communism"

John Korrie, Glenwood Springs:
"I cannot believe that our city council has agreed with RFTA to condemn Wayne Rudd's building on South Glen Avenue if a sale agreement does not work out.

Condemnation is nothing shy of communism just like when the Re-1 school district took the True Value building.

It is wrong on every level of democracy. It is no different than if someone knocked on your door and said, “I want to buy your house,” and you say, “It is not for sale,” and they say, “OK, then we will just condemn it and take it away from you.”

In that sense, I bet everyone out there feels that is stealing, and totally wrong.

But as soon as it is a public agency or government agency doing it, it's OK. Hogwash, it is still wrong. Are there no other options for a bus station elsewhere?..."  (Read more?  Click title)

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SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent "City supports plan to acquire bus station site"

One of these days, RFTA is going to get caught while their hand is out for mega grants like the Omnibus Spending bill, by a clear thinking politician who's going to check out every single word of their grant application.

Like.....whether or not they really have the land, means and local support from all counties and municipalities affected before they are given millions of taxpayer dollars.

John Stroud:
"A local engineer who has been working with Kum & Go on their project, Phil Harris of Boundaries Unlimited, disputed Kincade's assertion that RFTA had formally approached Rudd before the lease with Kum & Go was in the works last summer...."  (Read more?  Click title)

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SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent "Condemnation a possibility for RFTA to acquire BRT site"

Finally, RFTA has a worthy opponent.  Wayne Rudd.  Ought to be very, very interesting to see Rudd dig in his heels should they not meet his price.  That's likely to be the first legal contest that RFTA isn't going to get a lot of help from that "eight member government" of theirs that Rudd doesn't match in same strength legal force.

How very good it is to see this possibility of someone finally shedding transparency on the bully that is the Roaring Fork Transit Authority.

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