NW Parkway deal is a raw one for the public
Way to gloss over reality, Rocky Mountain News. Your Sept. 4 editorial, “A good deal for public/ Private lease of Northwest Parkway ends debt fears,” completely obfuscated the negatives to the deal in favor of rah-rah for the misbegotten project.
Part of the agreement with Brisa/CCR is that no additional roads or public transportation infrastructure will be built in the corridor for 99 years. How does this favor a public that is supposed to be served by our governmental entities? The only people being served by this agreement are the Portuguese company that gains a stranglehold on transportation options in the corridor for 99 years and the inept members of the Northwest Parkway board, who are bailed out of an embarrassing bankruptcy.
Broomfield and the Northwest Parkway board are further being held hostage for deliverance of an unneeded tollway extension.
For a public governmental entity to sign an agreement to promote the needs and wishes of a foreign corporation over the needs and wishes of the citizens it pretends to represent is tantamount to treason.
Shame on Broomfield and the other so-called representatives of the people for selling our transportation future to corporate greed in a foreign land.
Scott Ledbetter, Golden
scott could this all be because you live in golden and the road will come to your town? you can only vote against progress for so long and then you get it anyway.
Posted by on September 20, 2007 06:11 AMNAFTA, GATT, CFR, NAU, SPP, NWO, UN
Posted by on September 20, 2007 08:12 AMThis comes down to common sense use of our tax dollars my friends.
This super-highway is a waste of my money and this has been proven definitively again and again by several studies. BTW: Calling all supporters of the super-highway, do you propose a substantial tax increase?
I personally live in Denver and I have a big problem with this decision because it is being pushed forward by greed, plain and simple, greed.
At the end of the day, this is a regional issue, not just Golden, this will negatively impact everyone who pays taxes. I’m all for taxes’ going to smart growth projects, but this is not one of them.
COMMON SENSE, WILL RULE THE DAY!
Scott Ledbetter is spot on. It is absurd to sell the rights of the people of the United States to any entity to save the face of the board of the NW parkway for its failures and for the monopolistic profit of foreigners. At least the board could find an American company to operate this fiasco.
Posted by Stan Broyles on September 20, 2007 09:30 AMCOMMON SENSE,
the accumulation of prejudices accumulated by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Posted by on September 20, 2007 11:25 AMLogical Thinking
Posted by Dan on September 20, 2007 12:58 PM