Colorado voters: Is Front Range Passenger Rail a smart investment or a financial boondoggle? Will it be useful and reliable? Front Range Passenger Rail: The train is fun and cool, like you! It wants to be your friend. Also, there is a cute fox mascot.

@KyleClark The music makes this clip

@KyleClark Commie shitbags like you have destroyed Colorado.

@KyleClark Do we get to vote on this?

@KyleClark What's even worse is that people -- most likely a local under-talented overpaid ad agency that does lots of work for government agencies and nonprofits -- got paid to come up with this tripe not counting the people who were paid to sit through meetings, reviews and approvals.

@KyleClark I mean, you don't need a crystal ball or a time machine when we keep copying California ideas, you can just look up how it's going for them... grist.org/transportation…

@KyleClark It would be cool if we actually knew how to build simple infrastructure like this with getting tied up in eminent dom legal battles, insufferable NIMBYs and absurd environmental impact studies that inflate costs to Venus. Laying electrified track just isn’t that hard.

I fled California years ago. Haven’t you dumbass media people and local government people done your fucking homework regarding California’s rail fucking disaster? Initially it was supposed to cost something like $33 billion back in 2008. Now it’s well into the $120 billion range and not a single track has been laid.

The RTD and rail line is a scam milking taxpayer of their hard-earned dollars! Recent Title VI monitoring reports show average RTD load/seat percentages ranging from near 0% to 10% on most routes and modes, with very few trips exceeding RTD’s maximum load factor standards (which aim for compliance at least 60% of the time). The same will be true for the proposed front range rail line which will end up costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars to build, and will always generate losses on the taxpayers dime. The government should stay out of the transportation industry and let private companies do it.

@KyleClark More trains everywhere. Passenger trains. Freight trains. Big trains. Small trains. Sleep trains. All of it.

@KyleClark Please point to somewhere that rail systems like this have been successful in the U.S.? Rail construction must kick massive $$ to NGO's that kick massive $$ back to dem politicians.

@KyleClark Board the train in ft Collins, ride to C Springs. Then what? Uber everywhere? Why not just drive your car from ft Collins to c springs? Come n go when you please, leave when you please. Terrible investment. RTD is a money pit. This will be worse.

@KyleClark I think it’s a good idea, but it will not happen.

@KyleClark So, you leave your car at the Denver station, pay to take the train for several miles to Ft Collins, then have no way to get where you need to go except by paying a taxi, Uber or Lyft driver. I'd rather drive my car.

@KyleClark In conjunction with robotaxis, this actually might be used. I know quite a few people who commute daily from the springs to Littleton.

@KyleClark I would guess it would be another horrible decision by the people running this state. Add some more tax on the actual people working for a shit project no one wants.

@KyleClark I fully expect this to go as well as California's, in all respects. Little action, massive spending, and more taxes to pay for the "delays", all for a product that maybe 1-2% of the state's population will use. Take the L on money already spent and kill it.

@KyleClark The only question is will it ever be built? Oh, and who asked for this?

@KyleClark As long as it’s the same idiots doing the colfax mess we’ll be fine.

@KyleClark It’s a smart investment if managed correctly. The investment will pay off more and more as our population increases and land becomes more expensive. Waiting on mass transit only causes expenses to go higher.

@KyleClark Boondoggle of course. Is there not a 1.5 Billion dollar deficit yet Colorado wants this dumb project. HELLO Marxists. Nothing is FREE.

@KyleClark What possible difference could it make what Colorado voters think about this? This is a one-party state.

@KyleClark lived in California when high speed train LA to SF came up for vote, seeing @JerryBrownGov enriched his friends wasting 4b on just the enviro studies that his donor’s charged the state ($4b was the stated cost of the whole project) I’m going to say NO. I’ve been robbed before.

@KyleClark Can you point to your investigative piece on why the passenger rail effort in CA failed?

@KyleClark We already have empty busses and light rail. This will be more of it.

@KyleClark @JonCaldara While this is nowhere nearly as bad as California's historic boondoggle, I still don't see many people riding it. Easier and quicker just to drive between Denver and Ft Collins.

@KyleClark can’t imagine ridership will justify the cost, and would bet the costs will be much higher than currently projected (always are on government projects)

@KyleClark It requires money meant to fix roads. rockymountainvoice.com/2026/05/04/rai…

@KyleClark Phase 1 makes some sense because there are people who commute for work from the North. Phase 2 & 3…How many people are commuting around Pueblo & Colo Spring to Den and not hitting Castle Rock as a stop. Kind of a waste on that front.

@KyleClark Well, CoCo and the Fox momentarily distract people from the honest branding, which should be "Front Range Passenger Rail: Blazing a path to the 20th century".

@KyleClark Every intersection in the city is full of drug addicts and vagrants and Democrats are brainstorming cute names for a train no one wants

@KyleClark Boondoggle. Like most public transportation

@KyleClark Oh sure, everyone on the front range would rather ride a train north and south along the foothills on RTD's schedule rather than get in their car and go when and where they want. Would our smartass media please check the economic assumptions on this boondoggle?

@KyleClark sarcastic kyle is my favorite, after ass-kicking a liar kyle.