Friednash: With Polis’ signature, Colorado will finally compete with Utah on infrastructure
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Friednash: With Polis’ signature, Colorado will finally compete with Utah on infrastructure

Author, The Denver Post, June 16, 2021

In 2016, I traveled to Utah with then-Gov. John Hickenlooper and Shailen Bhatt, who was the head of the Colorado Department of Transportation at the time, to unlock the secret of Utah’s transportation and infrastructure successes.

Utah, a Republican-dominated state, had raised taxes three times in the past ten years and made substantial investments in infrastructure and expanded highway lanes, giving them a distinct economic and quality of life advantage over Colorado.

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