Chamber, EDC execs urge solution to ‘transportation crisis’

DENVER —  Leaders of chambers of commerce and economic-development organizations from across Colorado have signed letters to Gov. John Hickenlooper and leaders of the Colorado House and Senate reminding them of their promise to come up with funding to solve what they call a “transportation crisis.”

The letters urge the politicians to follow through on their promise to fund a $9 billion funding gap to repair and widen roads throughout the state.

A funding mechanism has yet to be introduced.

“Leaders from communities across the state and from critical corridors in every region know a…