( Beechview-Castle Shannon)-Denver vote

[John Swindler]

Bill Vigrass wrote:

>
>Good news:  Subject:	DENVER VOTES
> >
> > VOTERS PASSED LIGHT RAIL 73% TO 37%................WOW!!!
> > Jack Boorse STV Phila.
>

Question, Bill:

What was the vote for???????

Couldn't be for 8.7 mile South West extension from I-25/Broadway to 
Littleton. (???) That $ 177 million project has been under construction for 
past couple years, and has a scheduled opening date of July 2000.  (At $20 
million per mile, Denver is building light rail at about 75 percent of the 
cost per mile of the proposed $63 million East Busway extension costs!)

Or was this Denver vote for local share for 19.7 mile South East extension 
along the I-25 corridor???  Think RTD was looking at about $ 500 million 
total for this one (or $100 from state/local sources), but there were local 
funding problems.  Voters may have turned down a 1997 referendum to increase 
the RTD's local sales tax revenue base, causing RTD to rely on a slice of 
Colorado motor vehicle taxes for local share of transit construction 
projects.

So has Denver revisited the sales tax issue, or was this vote for another 
purpose?????

Just curious.

John

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