[Cirrus]

You're right. Most of America's willingness to change the land use, including Denver/Colorado's, has been disappointingly weak. Part of the deal is supposed to be that building the rail line gives you political cover to meaningfully upzone, and that is not happening enough.

It doesn't help that we're building a bunch of lines where south Aurora counts as "relatively supportive land use," and where we're calling a line that carries 60% of the Colfax bus a high-ridership location. This is what TakeFive, in his insistence that it's a great success, is getting wrong. His bar is looooow.

All that being said, you're still not making an honest comparison. CDOT's budget over the last 20 years isn't why there are 200,000 cars at I-25 & Colorado. It cost hundreds of billions over decades to build the supporting infrastructure (and land use) that made that happen. The amount we've spent on FasTracks is a pittance compared to the entire historic road network feeding I-25.