Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill The cost of traffic congestion exceeds the cost to eliminate it. An ongoing project of the Texas Transportation Institute estimates traffic congestion annually. TTI calculated the cost…
Category: Transportation
Colorado’s Anti-Transportation Policy (Issue Backgrounder)
Issue Backgrounder By Dennis Polhill, Matthew Edgar The Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) recently updated its Metro Vision 2020 Regional Transportation Plan. Although their transportation agenda is not directly stated, hints…
Transit Failure Exposed by Census
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill, Scott Barton Traffic congestion is getting worse and transit is not helping. Analysis of 2000 Census data by Randall OToole of the Thoreau Institute (www.ti.org) reveals that…
Is RTD Passing Gas?
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Ozone is a known cancer-causing agent. It also causes lung irritation and difficulty in breathing, especially among the very young, elderly, and those with respiratory ailments. Ozone…
Monorail to Vail: An Orgy of Collectivist Abuse
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill The failed monorail proposal contained interesting aspects, one of them being the absurdity of its discussion as a viable proposal. Voters wisely recognized the dubious and speculative…
Close the 470 Loop
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…
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…
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…
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…