Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill, Matthew Edgar The Regional Transportation District (RTD) will not allow Coloradans to have real transit solutions such as jitney service. A jitney is a privately owned minibus…
Category: Mass Transit
Transportation Terrorism
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Usually a terrorist is an extremist hijacking an airliner and holding innocent passengers hostage. Currently the FTA (Federal Transit Agency) is holding mobility hostage to extort Colorado…
Why RTD Elections Should be Partisan
Issue Backgrounder By Dennis Polhill updated version of 2000-M Synopsis: RTD is one of Colorado’s biggest and most obscure governments. Elections have not received sufficient public scrutiny, making control of the RTD…
The Transportation Industrial Complex
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Elementary school students learn the opposite of politics. The Scientific Method, both used in school and required in Science Fair projects, mandates that a proposition, idea, question…
RTD’s Tradition of Deception
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Like here in Denver, the Orange County Transportation Authority in California has expressed an interest in constructing light rail. The conflict of interest is obvious. If OCTA…
Let Those Who Receive the Benefits Pay the Costs
An analysis of the Colorado state government’s flawed plan for I-25 Issue Paper By Stephen R. Mueller, P. E. and Dennis Polhill, P. E. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. This report presents a detailed analysis…
The Mass Transit Delusion
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill There is no truth to the belief that light rail improves traffic congestion. A look at the failure of light rail in Portland, Oregon and elsewhere shows…
Light Rail in Denver – Taking the Taxpayers for a Ride
Issue Paper By Stephen R. Mueller and Dennis PolhillSenior Fellows, The Independence Institute In Brief: Congress is considering giving Denver hundreds of millions of dollars to construct an eight mile extension of…
Denver’s Road to Ruin
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill, Stephen R. Mueller The citizens and taxpayers of the Denver metropolitan region have shown their willingness to fund numerous imaginative public works and civic improvement projects over…
RTD is on the Prowl
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Watch out Colorado. The Regional Transportation District (RTD) has an insatiable appetite for tax dollars and they are eyeing the state coffers. They have a plan to…