Rocky Mountain News
February 15, 2006
Letters to the Editor
Parkway, TV tower stands misunderstood
Reader Bob Kinney makes some good points in "Make parkway-TV tower deal with Golden" about why a new HDTV tower should replace the several towers on Lookout Mountain. He misunderstands, however, Golden's position on resisting a high-speed C-470-type superhighway coming "through the heart of Golden."
Golden has never fought "to move this alignment to the east." Golden's position is consistent with the results of the 2000 Northwest Quadrant Feasibility Study, that no beltway completion route will improve travel through the quadrant as will the upgrading of north-south arterials, including Colorado 93, Indiana Street and Wadsworth Boulevard (widening, improving traffic-light intersections, and adding some grade separated interchanges).
The Golden City Council has taken a strong position against construction of the new tower, but the location is in Jefferson County, whose commissioners made the decision not to allow construction. It is the residents on Lookout Mountain who have persuaded the government authorities that increased radiation and the danger from a collapsing tower should preclude the construction at that location. Threatening Golden with the beltway completion through the town will have no effect on the Jeffco commissioners - they want to have it there.
Dick Sugg
Golden
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