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

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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.

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[-] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Perhaps a Colorado resident can clarify, but this seems like the usual virtual-signaling bullshit. Just some of the projects currently going on:

https://www.codot.gov/projects/central-eastern

https://www.codot.gov/projects/northwestern-projects

https://www.codot.gov/projects/southeastern-projects

[-] TaTTe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I would understand these news as Colorado will try to avoid starting new highway projects, not that they would cancel currently ongoing ones.

[-] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

CDOT also has a lot of ongoing studies for future highway projects.

In the case of California, we had similar directives to end highway projects -- which the various highway agencies ignore.

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