Driving on toll roads
Your article stated that Colorado's toll roads, such as E-470, aren't meeting projections. This should be no surprise. As a resident of Wyoming who occasionally drives to DIA, I have driven one of these roads - E-470 - exactly once. I was stopped several times, and dunned for a truly absurd amount of money, within the extremely short distance from I-25 to DIA. The delays to stop for tolls and rustle up change more than obviated any minor benefit I might have gotten from taking that route rather than another. And had I equipped myself with an "electronic leash," as some Denver area residents have done, I would have eliminated the delays but not the outrageous tolls. What's more, I would have had to give the road's corporate masters the use of a substantial chunk of my cash, interest-free. I - like other residents of the region, I'm sure - vowed never to do it again.
By selling its soul to greedy corporations intent upon making a buck, government is abdicating one of its proper functions: maintaining and developing public infrastructure. Public roads should be built and maintained at public expense for public use. In the future, you'll see me driving to DIA on the interstate highways for which I already pay with my federal taxes - not financing a get-rich-quick scheme that responsible government would never have allowed in the first place.
Brett Glass, Laramie, Wyo.
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