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The Denver Post - Letter to the Editor In response to Dener Post Editorial "Golden's ticket is working together" Toll road would offer few traffic benefits The Denver Post seems to have confused laying pavement with solving the region’s transportation problems. Last year, The Post editorialized that “smart investors would probably shun” a new Jefferson County toll road, and concluded that “upgrading existing roads … may be the best way to improve mobility in the northwest metro area.” The Countywide Transportation Plan approved by Jefferson County and Arvada, Golden, Lakewood, Westminster and Wheat Ridge would virtually eliminate congestion on local streets and cut travel times, primarily through improvements to State Highway 93 and Indiana/McIntyre Street. In contrast, a toll road would offer few traffic benefits, primarily because it wouldn’t take most drivers where they want to go. In fact, a private toll road would be worse than nothing because investors would require Arvada and possibly others to sign gridlock guarantees to limit improvements and increase congestion on surrounding roads. So not only does a toll road fail to address the region’s traffic problems, but it actually precludes the sort of improvements that would make a positive difference. Putting all of the region’s energy into pursuing the fantasy of luring a private corporation to pay for a toll road distracts us from the kind of analysis that The Post has advocated for statewide transportation solutions. Jacob Smith, Mayor of Golden
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The following organizations endorse CINQ’s position: Colorado Environmental Coalition, Jeffco League of Women Voters, Plan Jeffco, Friends of the Foothills, former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm, Canyon Area Residents for the Environment (CARE), Blue Mountain Land & Homeowners Association, Apple Meadows Homeowners Association, Village at Mountain Ridge Homeowners Association, Meadow Run Homeowners Association, and Harmony Village Community Association. |