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Originally Posted by bunt_q
I completely agree. But the Republican House in Washington has as much chance of nationalizing healthcare as they have of increasing the gas tax. I suppose a state level increase could be possible, but would also do a lot less. And require an election next November that nobody wants.
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Not so sure about this? The sense I've gotten is that Republicans did an admiral job of finding candidates that were "normal, rational people." Traditionally transportation has been popular on both sides of the aisle.
The more rapidly growing southern states have been an outlier but I have to believe they are also facing transportation needs growing faster than they've been able to meet. They may now be seeing the benefit of Federal support. Most of the low density states are Republican and likely depend more desperately on Federal support.
Such is the nature of politics that once elected much of the campaign rhetoric becomes irrelevant. If they see the need and the benefit they'll do it and paint it as a positive. I can easily see more moderate/commerce friendly Republicans and Dems teaming up FTW.
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Originally Posted by bunt_q
I think Denver is the clear beneficiary. There are some suburbs who will care - old inner ring burbs with redevelopment opportunities (Lakewood) and those more expensive suburbs with major TOD opportunities (Lone Tree) - but many won't benefit as much, as I'm not sure there's going to be much of a boom in lower end condo construction with rents holding where they are.
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In the near term I'd agree because the biggest development interest is still "urban core" but that will change over time.
Longer term I can envision the South Colorado Blvd. (south of I-25) and the East Hampden Ave. corridor (east of I-25) being great areas for redevelopment and densification - for example.
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