About $40 million a year in state funding from new transportation fees could be the key to getting a short passenger rail line from Denver to Fort Collins up and running in the next four years, Colorado officials said last week.
The project, spearheaded by Gov. Jared Polis and some of his top advisers, envisions a “joint service” between the Front Range Passenger Rail District, which eventually plans to serve cities as far south as Pueblo, and the Denver- area Regional Transportation District, which has struggled to complete a commuter line from Denver to Boulder that voters first approved more than 20 years ago.
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