Quite the news item in yesterday’s Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel that should make folks really stand up and take notice.  CDOT Commissioner Heather Barry told the Thornton City Council Tuesday that she was concerned that the north FasTracks rail line is in very real jeopardy due to rising cost overruns by RTD.

She said, “Honestly, right now I don’t think it’s going to happen in our corridor, what’s been proposed.  I think we may get left in the dust on that committment.” 

This is the sad reality of the over $6 billion boondoggle voters approved.  RTD promised voters a bill of goods that they can’t deliver.  The north metro rail line is the last piece of FasTracks and mark my words, what the north area ends up with will be nothing like what we were promised.  Either we will have to accept something much less or spend a lot of our own money to make up the difference.  While I am encouraged that Thornton is trying to hold RTD’s feet to the fire, I don’t know that there is much they can actually do if this comes to pass. 

Is legal action a possibility?  I don’t know.  The best thing would be to send it back to the voters and repeal the whole thing.

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