FasTrack Cost Overuns One Of Many Concerns

Does a $100 million+ cost overrun mandate a "re-do" as one participant asked at yesterday's meeting on the Northwest Corridor rail line? The environmental impact analysis of the train running from Denver to Louisville, Boulder and on to Longmont brought out a big crowd with lots of complaints yesterday in Boulder; another meeting is Thursday in Longmont at the Xilinx Learning Center.

I think the interesting question is whether FasTracks should be planning on diesel or electric trains. I'll forgo the argument we'll all be using bikes by then (2015) or the idea we will have suffered some other catastrophic social calamity.