On: In Colorado, an ambitious new highway policy is not building them

[s_dev]

Switzerland has incredible trains and train networks. Just before people chime in with "Trains are good but mountains are too much of a challenge so might work in other places better with a flat geography".

Sounds reasonable until you see how the Swiss do it. Nobody said that but that's where I feel this conversation is going and the previous commenter did say 'buses first'. Probably to exploit the existing road network and achieve ambitious goals in a piece meal manner.

[thsksbd → s_dev]

Colorado is five times larger and has a much smaller population.

[CPLX → thsksbd]

Almost none of that population lives in the mountains.

Colorado is half Switzerland and half Kansas. Literally everyone minus a rounding error lives on the flat part.

[izacus → thsksbd]

Which should make construction much easier, faster and cheaper due to lack of expensive private land boyouts.