transportation funding

Known as SB 1, the bill would also make toll lanes harder to build and threatens to undermine a more transit-oriented funding measure on the November ballot.

Imagine you own a shoe store and every time you want to bring in more customers by having a sale, you had to ask the National Shoe Retailers Association for permission, which could take months or years to give you an answer. That's how Senator Tim Neville and his Republican colleagues want RTD to do things.

The measures would raise the state sales tax, with 40 percent of revenue reserved for cities and counties, and 15 percent for transit, biking, and walking.

Funding for sustainable transportation and safety measures are on the table.

"Good Roads bring the autos — the more autos, the more money for good roads."

The Denver City Council voted 10 to 3 Monday to approve Mayor Michael Hancock's 2018 budget. Among the initiatives covered in the spending plan are 29 full-time employees to get a fledgling stand-alone transportation department up and running; $33 million for walking, biking, and transit improvements; and $75 million for standard street maintenance and paving.

Mayor Hancock said the vote was "absolutely" a referrendum on the importance of sustainable transportation.

This committee is a way to shape transportation policy from the inside and watchdog a process that will create new policies, programs, and funding streams to reach the administration's stated goals.

At the current rate of funding, Denver won't complete building out its bike network until 2042.