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So I opened my mail today and saw something very interesting in the local Newsletter.  We Coloradoans voted for a train line that is supposed to connect Denver with Longmont and Boulder.  Some of the project is for increasing lines within Denver also.  We agreed to a tax to pay for it.  They are probably now taking that money.

So why are they trying to eliminate the lines from Denver to Longmont and Boulder?  They'll just stick to the Denver plans, thank you very much.

Or they'll give us one single line from Denver to Longmont to Boulder.  That means that a single train will go all the way from Denver, through Longmont, to Boulder, and then back again.  It takes an hour to go from Denver to Longmont, and another forty minutes to Boulder from there, in a car.  So the SINGLE ONLY train will run, what?  Every four hours or so?  To save money?  Uh, what a waste of money, putting one track in so the train can only run sporadically, then expecting people to actually use it.  Then maybe later starting a WHOLE NEW project, with even MORE money, to add a second track.

THAT's not what we voted for!!!

Is this a bait-and-switch scheme?  Hmm.  Take our money that we told you to spend on a rail-line, and then don't use it the way we voted for it to be used.  Smells kind of dirty to me!