Rocky Mountain News
December 27, 2005
Letters to the Editor
Norton monomaniacal about NW beltway
Cheers to the Citizens Involved in the Northwest Quadrant for their continued fight against the Colorado Department of Transportation and Tom Norton! ("Road fight is hardy perennial/Citizen group keeps slugging away at plans for beltway," Dec. 12.)
It is true that CDOT should consider the traffic level that travels within the northwest quadrant as well as through the area, but Norton didn't mention that that has already been done. A cross-regional traffic study by Denver Regional Council of Governments showed that at the lowest level of projected traffic, only 10 percent of vehicles in the northwest area belong to those merely passing through. The greatest number of trips through the area are taken by people traveling from one spot within the quadrant to another, and that pattern is expected to continue.
Why is it that when discussing how CDOT will handle the failure of Referendum D, Norton says CDOT may be forced to concentrate its limited dollars on maintenance and its safety efforts on existing roads instead of new construction? Yet, when it comes to completing Norton's beltway project, he ignores all of the information that indicates that constructing a superhighway/toll-road will not solve any real traffic concerns!
Kelly McVerry
Golden
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