Apr 12, 2021
Lawmakers at the state Capitol want to bring high speed rail to the front range. Senate President Leroy Garcia has introduced a bill that would create a passenger rail line running between the New Mexico and Wyoming borders with stops along the front range. We take a look at the proposal with Senator Garcia, who joined CMN.
April 10, 2021, 1:35 pm
State Senate President Leroy Garcia, a Pueblo Democrat, on Friday introduced a Front Range high-speed passenger rail bill that has been one of his top priorities since becoming a state lawmaker.
While the bill is aimed squarely at facilitating passenger rail along the state’s populous Front Range from the Wyoming border in the north to Trinidad in the south where 80% of the state’s population resides it’s worth noting that it would connect through Garcia’s hometown of Pueblo, which is also the southern terminus of the inactive 220-mile Tennessee Pass Line (TPL) that connects to an active rail line in Dotsero in the western part of Eagle County.
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A protester hangs out the window of a sports-utility vehicle during a rally around the Colorado state Capitol to call on state lawmakers to protect public schools from budget cuts that would affect their jobs on May 26, 2020.
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Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics
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