COLORADO SPRINGS — Asking people to pay each time they use highway lanes isn’t an easy sell, particularly in tax-averse El Paso County, where a proposal to install toll lanes along an often-congested stretch of I-25 is going over like a lead balloon. “That’s just taxing people for no reason,” said Craig Sawall, one in a parade of residents who criticized the idea to loud applause during a public meeting in Colorado Springs last week.
I-25 Toll Lane Proposal Between Castle Rock And Monument Might Ease Traffic Jams, But It’s Enflaming Anti-tax Passions
John Aguilar, Denver Post: Politics
Mon, 05/21/2018 - 9:51am
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