https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/headway/highways-colorado-transportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE0.7zHZ.8dSfYjlKAIqx&smid=url-share
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16321714
Alternative link: https://archive.ph/BxMKZ
And even though President Biden’s administration has invested tens of billions of dollars to stimulate electric vehicle production and infrastructure, electric cars accounted for just under 8 percent of new cars sold in the United States last year.
Damn if only there was someone who knew how to make EVs and sell them at an affordable price.
No longer. In 1958, the year that Interstate 25 opened to traffic, the State Highway Department constructed the sweeping interchange connecting Federal Boulevard to Colfax Avenue and demolished more than 240 homes and businesses in the process. That project, which shaped the city for half a century, might now be undone. In March, CDOT was awarded a federal grant to remove the cloverleaf and rebuild the street grid, complete with storefronts and apartment buildings full of people. And, if Ms. Lew is successful, a rapid bus to take them where they need to go.
This is the first I've heard about this kind of reclamation project in the States--very cool!
How will the bus make a profit?? proceeds to generate negative revenue by building highways
