State Bill Colorado reports that the sponsor of the FASTER bill said a lawmaker’s proposal to fund a streetcar line along Colfax Avenue using dollars from the statewide hike in vehicle-registration fees might not be proper.
Rep. Joe Rice, D-Littleton, who sponsored FASTER and shepherded it through heated, partisan debate last spring, says he would be OK with Sen. Chris Romer’s idea as long as the state’s revenue share isn’t touched and the streetcar project conforms to local government’s permissible use of the money–which he doubts.
“Were going to stay true to what we passed last year and I don’t think this falls under either category,” said Rice.
The Greeley Tribune reports that a group of downtown Greeley property and business owners view an added lifeline to future economic prosperity as trolley tracks — of the loop sort the city boasted in the early 1900s.
A 12-member trolley group, a subcommittee of the Downtown Development Authority, has drafted a preliminary plan for a trolley rail line that would connect downtown Greeley to the north side of the University of Northern Colorado campus. The group will ask the DDA board at its monthly meeting on Wednesday to approve about $5,000 to prepare an application for a federal grant, which has a deadline of Feb. 8.
A new form of transportation could come to downtown Colorado Springs. Plans for an electric streetcar system are in the works, reports News Channel 13, KRDO-TV.
Organizers are hoping that a new system in would run with other vehicles in traffic lanes on Tejon, Cascade or Nevada. They would start in downtown Colorado Springs, but could extend as far north as Garden of the Gods and as far south as I-25.
Go to News Channel 13 to see the entire story. The news channel also has a video report you can see here.
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