Editorial: NoCo, Springs should reject competition for transportation funds

Hurry up and wait.

That expression — increasingly voiced by drivers along north Interstate 25 as they sit in traffic — could easily describe the gridlock over transportation funding at the state and federal levels.

Now, with Congress having passed the $305 billion Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, the nation has a five-year blueprint for highway funding.

President Obama signed the FAST Act into law Dec. 4. But already, some would pit regions of the state against each other in a desperate quest for any funds making their way to Colorado.

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