Gaines: Are your ‘damn roads’ fixed yet? Have they turned a single shovel?
By Cory Gaines | Guest Columnist, Colorado Accountability Project
Back in 2021, our governor, upon passage of SB 21-260 proclaimed that we'd finally fix our "damn roads".
While driving to Denver the other day and having my teeth rattle in my head on a rough section of road (my friend Jerry Sonnenberg has said you better wear your spurs to hang on), I thought back wistfully to those claims. Far from being a measure that collected money to actually fix the surfaces our cars and commerce move on, the bill itself created numerous enterprises only some of which actually work to fix the roads.
I got curious for an update on how much was collected so far and where it's gone, so I asked around. Today's posts will be the results of that digging.
This first post w...