{"id":50,"date":"2007-08-30T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T16:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/archives\/50"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T17:20:41","slug":"toll-road-taboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/toll-road-taboo\/","title":{"rendered":"toll road taboo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><!--more-->Decoding\u00a0the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abe21.net\/subpage6.html\">TRW rant\u00a0in the 8\/30\/07 ECN<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Commissioner Metli is a lame duck who impoverished the road and bridge department and is, therefore, no prophetic transportation visionary.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The TRW who fought the Super Slab are the true transportation visionaries in the county.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Ports-to-Plains is the right vision, not Super Slab.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">TRW are Ports-to-Plains experts with knowledge that others fear.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Those who give credence to Super Slab over Ports-to-Plains are stupid.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Putting Super Slab on a planning contingency map would damage property owners who have already been damaged, and would help Ray Wells get financing.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>All planning for possible Super Slab existence is taboo.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Conspicuously missing<\/strong> from the latest TRW rant was any talk of how to facilitate Elbert County citizens\u00a0getting to and from their destinations.\u00a0 <strong>i.e. The whole purpose of transportation planning.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Perhaps that&#8217;s why TRW input into the transportation master plan was not, apparently, valued.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>An interesting parallel<\/strong>: P<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">roponents of overhauling Colorado health care never seem to get to the meat of their process either &#8212; facilitating the provision of health care.\u00a0 They talk entirely\u00a0about who might pay,\u00a0but never about\u00a0who will provide.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-insurance","7":"category-politics","8":"category-transportation","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}