Colorado Ballot Measure Seeks To Lock Transportation Taxes Into Road Funding

By Sherrie Peif | Complete Colorado

DENVER – Colorado voters are one step closer to ensuring revenue intended for building and maintaining Colorado’s highways actually goes to fixing the roads.  A proposed ballot measure seeks to reinstate a prior funding mechanism, repealed by the legislature decades ago after the lawmaker it was named for retired. This time, however, the method would be enshrined in the state’s constitution, if passed.

The secretary of state’s office has okayed Initiative 175 for signature gathering, and if it makes it onto the November ballot, Colorado’s roads and highways may finally begin to see the much-needed repairs that, according to critics, have been pushed aside to satisfy progressive leaders’ desire for things such as mass transit.

Proponents have an uphill battle, though, as amending the Colorado Constitution requires signatures from at least 2 percent of the total registered voters in each of the 35 Colorado state senate districts. The measure must also pass by a super-majority 55 percent.

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Wade Haerle, Executive Director of Club 20, said the Western Slope advocacy organization has made passing Initiative 175 its number one priority this year

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