Posts Tagged ‘Denver Regional Council of Governments’
Thornton nets two one hundredths of one percent of highway stimulus funds
Absolutely amazing. As I reported earlier, out of the first $500 million of stimulus funds awarded to CDOT, Thornton gets all of one traffic metering light on the ramp from 84th Avenue to I-25. OUCH. I was pretty mad about that one but was told the city expected to receive some of the $60 million [...]
DRCOG: Future FasTracks cost increases “should not be surprising.”
The Denver Regional Council Of Governments (DRCOG) has told RTD that it needs to get its financial forecasting straight and stop dreaming. We already know that the $4.7 billion cost taxpayers were promised for this boondoggle has ballooned to $6.1 billion. In DRCOG’s annual review of the project, they are pretty much forewarning the public [...]