Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill, Stephen R. Mueller Everyone is complaining about traffic congestion. At the Independence Institute, we’ve said it time and time again: it’s not the growth, it’s the traffic…
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RTD Is Afraid of Private Sector Competition
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill, Matthew Edgar The Regional Transportation District (RTD) will not allow Coloradans to have real transit solutions such as jitney service. A jitney is a privately owned minibus…
Somaliland National Referendum: Final Report
Dennis Polhill was a member of the Washington DC-based Initiative & Referendum Institute’s Election Monitoring Team, which gave freely of their time in order to participate in this historic Somaliland National Referendum…
Transportation Terrorism
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Usually a terrorist is an extremist hijacking an airliner and holding innocent passengers hostage. Currently the FTA (Federal Transit Agency) is holding mobility hostage to extort Colorado…
Why RTD Elections Should be Partisan
Issue Backgrounder By Dennis Polhill updated version of 2000-M Synopsis: RTD is one of Colorado’s biggest and most obscure governments. Elections have not received sufficient public scrutiny, making control of the RTD…
Predatory Government
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill The recent bankruptcy and closure of Sunset Beach Fitness and Racquet Club in Golden is a reminder that the laws of economics are real and that our…
The Transportation Industrial Complex
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Elementary school students learn the opposite of politics. The Scientific Method, both used in school and required in Science Fair projects, mandates that a proposition, idea, question…
When Elections are Not Elections
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill, David Ottke Subverting the will of the people by fixing elections strikes at the heart of the democratic process. Shortly after the 2000 census is finished, powerful…
RTD’s Tradition of Deception
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Like here in Denver, the Orange County Transportation Authority in California has expressed an interest in constructing light rail. The conflict of interest is obvious. If OCTA…
Let Those Who Receive the Benefits Pay the Costs
An analysis of the Colorado state government’s flawed plan for I-25 Issue Paper By Stephen R. Mueller, P. E. and Dennis Polhill, P. E. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. This report presents a detailed analysis…