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Thu Feb 13, 2014, 05:44 PM Feb 2014

CDOT and US 36 Boulder to Denver [View all]

According to the Denver Post, Boulder Camera, and TV Channels 4 and 7 CDOT has moved the second hearing (of two) to be held tonight to the old Sam's Club in Louisville because (surprise!) hundreds of citizens showed up in Westminster last night and couldn't get in to speak against the secret deal to privatize to an Australian consortium the US 36 Managed Lanes (toll lanes) Project which has been under construction since 2012.
Seems many Coloradans thought CDOT had had time to mention to lawmakers, the 100,000 commuters who travel 36 every day, and taxpayers who will pay the 425 million construction cost and toll collection that it is in the process of signing the 600-page, 50 YEAR contract with the multi-national Plenary Group which has no experience in building roads in the US.

I will go tonight and let you know if it's possible for real people, not corporations, to still have a voice.

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