Super Slab, Super Controversial
Plans for a massive privately financed toll road and rail corridor is mired in debate about the rights of private developers to eminent domain.
"The plan calls for a $2 billion, privately financed toll road and rail corridor from Fort Collins to Pueblo, parallel to the Front Range...
The highway is aimed at truckers and motorists willing to pay for an uninterrupted 85-mph-speed-limit road that avoids all urban congestion. The tracks would take interstate coal trains out of Front Range cities, cutting pollution, noise and congestion...
Along each side of the 660-foot right of way for the road and tracks, developers want a one-mile no-development buffer strip...Opponents are suspicious of the secrecy surrounding the company's investors, and they are hopping mad over a private profit-making entity being able to condemn their land just like the government. "
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