The last few years have included a tremendous amount of talk about and a whole lot of work on our roads and bridges. It has come with our backs against the wall, too many cars in too few lanes, too many accidents and too many bridges that were failing. That is not the place you want to be when trying to make good, long-term policy for the transportation needs for our state. The problem isn’t solved. Even though we see lots of cones and construction workers we have a desperate need to make sure that our roads are built to capacity. 

You may have also noticed that all these improvements include tolls. We are told that there is no other way to get the work done, that we don’t have enough money to build the lane miles we all need. But in 2021 the Democrats passed a transportation funding plan that increased the gas tax (a violation of our Constitution), added a fee to Grub Hub and Door Dash, to Amazon deliveries and Uber. Now, less than a year later, we are being told that those taxes won’t actually do what they promised, that there have to be mandatory reductions in employees commuting. It seems it’s a problem without a solution, not enough money without tolls, tax after tax and now social engineering from a Department called the Colorado Department of Transportation. We can do better and we must. We need to audit CDOT and make sure that we are getting our money’s worth on the projects we need to get to work and get to school. We need to demand that our tax dollars go to pay for the capacity we need so we aren’t subjecting our citizens to the endless lane changes and cone zones that result in far too many accidents. 

We will work with our Departments to prioritize budgets that make historic investments in concrete and asphalt. There is no other way to keep our state moving forward and giving parents back the time spent in endless traffic.