Not The Onion

21168 readers

2678 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

Colorado train to Longmont could arrive in 999 Days, 24 years after voters approved it (www.9news.com)

submitted 21 hours ago by Stamau123@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

DENVER — A Colorado rail project approved by voters more than two decades ago may finally be completed.

It has been 21 years since voters approved a 0.4% FasTracks sales tax for the Regional Transport District (RTD). FasTracks promised to build light rail throughout the metro area (it did), a rail line to DIA (it did), rail lines in the metro area (somewhat) and a rail line to Boulder and Longmont (crickets).

At one point, RTD said it would be 2050 before the train was in service.

As of Wednesday, April 8, the rail line could be completed in 999 days. That is how many days until Jan. 1, 2029.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 13 points 20 hours ago

Anyone who has lived or commuted by large scale infrastructure projects knows that there's no chance it'll be done by 2029.