The Denver Post reports that the Denver Regional Council of Governments board of directors voted Wednesday night to include the proposed Jefferson Parkway toll road in the group’s long-range transportation plan. The vote was 35 to 17.
Jefferson County, Broomfield and Arvada have been promoting the toll highway, which would run from the Interlocken commercial complex just off U.S. 36 to CO 93 north of Golden. Officials from the city of Golden and communities in Boulder County were among those opposing the effort to include the toll highway in DRCOG’s plan.
Toll Roads News.com reports that the the Northwest Parkway became the last toll road in Colorado to go cashless. As of 10 p.m. Dec 31, the beltway segment went cashless with all-electronic tolling. E-470 went cashless in the first half of 2009, and the last cash was collected July 3. I-25 HOT Lanes operated by CDOT have always been cashless.
Steve Bobrick, operations director at the Northwest Parkway, says the company laid off the two full-time collectors and a supervisor collector at year’s end. He says there were no hard feelings because they’d known for a long time that their jobs would end, and they received a decent severance package.
According to the article, Portuguese concessionaire Brisa, which operates Northwest Parkway, had a small operating net income but a substantial three-quarter loss for the year after counting debt service.
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