Should Denver voters get a “do-over” on a botched massive tax hike? It may not be too late to undo the damage.
More on that in a moment on the Face The State Radio Minute.
Have you ever heard of Boston’s “big dig” – the massively over-budget roads project originally budgeted at $6 billion, which promptly ballooned to almost $15 billion, with voters picking up the tab? Jon Caldara thinks Denver may have its own version in FasTracks, the huge light-rail construction project funded by a 2004 sales tax increase.
Officials at the Regional Transportation District say they’re going back to the drawing board now that rising prices and missed deadlines plague the project at every level. Caldara’s logic is simple: Voters were promised a transit network, and they’re not getting one. The first step to getting out of a hole is to stop digging it, and voters could send that message in an election to bring the project to a halt, or at least cut it short.
For FaceTheState.com, I’m Brad Jones.


