In early November, before a crowd of 600 people at a transportation summit, Shailen Bhatt, executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation, delivered a stark warning about another state’s ramped-up efforts to raise money for its roads and bridges to help its business community move people and goods.
His audience knew that Colorado has found it difficult to pay for upgrading its own clogged and crumbling highways, to the dismay of many of its businesses.
Then, in the darkened ballroom,…
In early November, before a crowd of 600 people at a transportation summit, Shailen Bhatt, executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation, delivered a stark warning about another state’s ramped-up efforts to raise money for its roads and bridges to help its business community move people and goods.
His audience knew that Colorado has found it difficult to pay for upgrading its own clogged and crumbling highways, to the dismay of many of its businesses.
Then, in the darkened ballroom,…