$8.2 Billion from the President’s Investing in America Agenda to Deliver Transformative Passenger Rail in America President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda – a key pillar of Bidenomics – is delivering world class-infrastructure across the country, expanding access to economic opportunity, and creating good-paying jobs. By delivering $66 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law –…
Oh yay… a low-speed rail from… Pueblo to Fort Collins.
That will literally never happen. As much as I’d love to use it the one time a year I need to make a trip like that, the ROI would be so far in the negative, even I’d vote against it… and I’m a train aficionado and a fan of government-funded rail.
Ah yeah everything in that document is just Corridor ID spending. I explain that here But basically it’s a feasibility study, they’re only getting $500,000 to do an in-depth study.
Looking at the details it indicates that it would stop at Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, “and other points”. This money was to move the project into “Step 2” and is slated to use existing alignment (share freight train rails) and is going to be propped up by a different Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) grant. Apparently, this is all part of the Front Range Passenger Rail project that’s been an on-going thing there since 2002, when the 1998 “Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century” (that’s literally the name of the law) granted authority for the US DOT to designate eleven NEW federal rail corridors and Colorado decided “what the heck, let’s try!” and won.
So surprise! You guys won one of the eleven spots! It may take awhile to claim your prize it seems. But good news, some money is coming to your Department of Transportation to get them over the next hurdle that they’ve been working to get over since …checks notes… 2014. Good grief, does everything Government wise go this slow there in Colorado?! I’m from Tennessee, we tend to just embezzle everything, so everything goes really fast here.
I just want the train from Denver to Boulder that was promised back in the early 2000s. We voted for it, we funded it, and it… never happened. Now the money is gone. Nobody knows why.
So please do it. Start there. Then go up to Fort Collins so my son can get to college, then finish the southern route.
Try the document itself. Page 18 on the indicated PDF.
Oh yay… a low-speed rail from… Pueblo to Fort Collins.
That will literally never happen. As much as I’d love to use it the one time a year I need to make a trip like that, the ROI would be so far in the negative, even I’d vote against it… and I’m a train aficionado and a fan of government-funded rail.
Ah yeah everything in that document is just Corridor ID spending. I explain that here But basically it’s a feasibility study, they’re only getting $500,000 to do an in-depth study.
Looking at the details it indicates that it would stop at Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, “and other points”. This money was to move the project into “Step 2” and is slated to use existing alignment (share freight train rails) and is going to be propped up by a different Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) grant. Apparently, this is all part of the Front Range Passenger Rail project that’s been an on-going thing there since 2002, when the 1998 “Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century” (that’s literally the name of the law) granted authority for the US DOT to designate eleven NEW federal rail corridors and Colorado decided “what the heck, let’s try!” and won.
So surprise! You guys won one of the eleven spots! It may take awhile to claim your prize it seems. But good news, some money is coming to your Department of Transportation to get them over the next hurdle that they’ve been working to get over since …checks notes… 2014. Good grief, does everything Government wise go this slow there in Colorado?! I’m from Tennessee, we tend to just embezzle everything, so everything goes really fast here.
I just want the train from Denver to Boulder that was promised back in the early 2000s. We voted for it, we funded it, and it… never happened. Now the money is gone. Nobody knows why.
So please do it. Start there. Then go up to Fort Collins so my son can get to college, then finish the southern route.
We do like trains. Everyone should like trains.