Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them
www.nytimes.com
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.

In Colorado, that new vision was catalyzed by climate change. In 2019, Gov. Jared Polis signed a law that required the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent within 30 years. As the state tried to figure out how it would get there, it zeroed in on drivers. Transportation is the largest single contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for about 30 percent of the total; 60 percent of that comes from cars and trucks. To reduce emissions, Coloradans would have to drive less.

  • Stamau123@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 months ago

    Tell me about it, I loved light rail when it first opened, and it’s better having it than not, but even as a kid I could tell they only really cared at opening and during big events downtown. Last free month in August I saw people smoking meth to and from the art museum, and the time table on the new expansions are a joke.