[diesel_mercedes] Colorado Blues

 



I understand your view mark ;

I used to visit Colorado, it was a wide open and mostly empty place back then .

The last few times I passed through I did only that and was sad to see the changes .

Pretty much every place on Earth has way more people than it did a few decades ago, what to do ? .

As long as those damn KIDS KEEP OFF MY LAWN I'll be O.K. I think .

-Nate (another old man)

                    Mark   wrote :

Well, this state is definitely NOT being run by conservatives. Most of the highway building/maintenance is paid for by fuel taxes.  A good portion of the hike in registration fees was for this fund, maybe just under half.  Then, much of THAT was redirected to fund Obamacare, and now they're crying for more money again.  Meanwhile, the projects that have been funded have taken up a lot of time and expense, tying up traffic during construction, and when they're all done, have done nothing to improve the traffic situation around here, though contractors, unions and those on the government payroll have made out quite nicely.


I realize a good part of the problem has been the heavy growth from migration to Colorado from other states. For that, I am more and more aligning with former governor Richard Lamm (D), whose sentiment was along the lines of "If you improve roads and build roads, it only encourages more and more people to use them." (This is the same guy who made his name here by successfully getting Coloradans to vote the '76 Winter Olympic games out of the state. Also famous for his "Duty to die" comment.)


"When the rest of the country finds out about Colorado, it will be ruined."  Bernis L ("Bernie") Brauer (my mother), ca 1971.


(Insert grouchy old man grumble here.)


Mark in Centennial, CO

 

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