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Do we have hope to defeat the Superhighway?

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Contributed by: Rob Medina on 11/15/2005

I have heard a few people say that fighting the superhighway is a waste of time -- we are just citizens, too small to make a difference. We can’t opposing the governor, the Colorado Department of Transportation and Jeffco Commissioners – it’s David v. Goliath -- we don’t have a chance.
Before one takes a defeatist attitude, consider this. The state of Texas is currently embroiled in a huge transportation controversy involving the Trans-Texas Corridor, a 4,000-mile highway costing some $175 billion. The highway is proposed to be a toll road. (Sound familiar?)
Citizens throughout Texas have turned out in droves to oppose this boondoggle, and government officials are taking notice. Opposition has become so great that there is now support for legislation to place a two-year moratorium on the development of the highway, and bar the Texas Department of Transportation from imposing a new toll on any portion of a state highway for the next two years. 32 counties have officially come out opposing the Trans-Texas Corridor. One Texas state legislator said, "Grassroots support like this means something...the best way to put this on the radar screen is to be heard.”
The controversy in Texas is far from over, but it appears that grass roots citizens groups are successful at creating broad support to turn back a bad transportation idea. (See more at corridorwatch.org).
As a local example of successful activism, consider that Golden citizens (and city council) were able to defeat the super tower proposed to be built on Lookout Mountain, fighting against large communications companies, lobby groups and the Jeffco Commissioners.
Nay-sayers might take a lesson from these examples. As Americans and tax payers, we can never give in to bad government policies. We can make a difference, if we take time to care. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
Visit the CINQ web site at www.GoTheBetterWay.com and get involved today.

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