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The Denver Post - Letter to the Editor In response to Dener Post Editorial "Golden's ticket is working together" Traffic demand won’t be enough to pay for tollway Post editors apparently lifted opinions from the pro-beltway websites of the Jefferson Economic Council and Arvada without considering all the facts. In 2003, Golden paid for a highway design along the SH-93/ US-6 corridor, an alternative to the proposed high-speed highway that would increase noise and air pollution and divide the city. No other city has been penetrated by E-470, C-470, or the Northwest Parkway. Everyone agrees that two-lane SH-93 is a rush-hour bottleneck through Golden, and is a dangerous road north to Boulder. Those entities promise that tolls collected on 10 miles of the 20-mile beltway extension will pay for the construction, operation and maintenance of the toll road, plus for the free parkway through Golden and the free beltway stretch from the Northwest Parkway through Interlocken to SH-128. Golden citizens and others along the foothills could live with the parkway solution, even though the toll highway would bring additional traffic through town. The experience of the Northwest Parkway and results of the Northwest Corridor EIS, however, indicate that traffic demand on a western toll highway will never generate the required revenue. Dick Sugg, Golden
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The following organizations endorse CINQ’s position: Colorado Environmental Coalition, 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. |