“”I’m shocked,” said RTD director Bill Christopher”

“”I’m madder than hell,” RTD director and former Thornton mayor Noel Busck said…”

Those reactions from the Denver Post article today that talks about the RTD board’s reaction to the alternatives to the TaxTracks boondoggle.  Really, gentlemen?  That’s the best you can do after sitting back and watching this project turn into a disaster since it was approved by voters four years ago?  Do not pretend to be indignant now when you failed to read the writing on the wall from the start.  Wasn’t it you Mr. Busck that said just last month, “Don’t believe what you read in the papers.  We’re going to get it done”?  You chose to defend this boondoggle all along when you knew full well what was going on. 

Cal Marsella and RTD management and the RTD board sold the metro area a bill of goods which they never could produce. 

Perhaps there was one good thing to come out of yesterday’s meeting:

Director Bill McMullen said RTD should offer area residents another alternative besides raising more money for FasTracks, building only what can be afforded by 2017 or possibly extending full construction of some lines past that date.

Claiming FasTracks now is a “radical change” from what was promised to voters four years ago when they approved a 0.4 percent sales tax to fund the project, McMullen said, “We have an obligation to ask the public, ‘Maybe you’d like none of it.’ “

You’re damn right that option should be made public and included in any and all discussions about this topic!  It is my opinion that the City of Thornton should spearhead the effort to get us out of this mess entirely!