![]() ![]() To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail. We are all complicit if we cannot control our tendency toward excess. Of course, all the blame does not lie with Bezos. ![]() No doubt Mother Earth can use Jeff Bezos’ 10 billion bucks, but wouldn’t prior years of environmental stewardship while expanding his giant carbon footprint building Amazon have been the right and better thing to do? This continuous trend of huge, global companies exploiting resources, people and the environment while building their empires, then donating a tiny fraction of their vast wealth to assuage being complicit in being significant contributors to climate change is pathetic. ![]() Re: “ Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to address climate change,” Feb. No more multi-hour commutes or I-70 Berthoud Pass headaches! Just imagine how life would be when we’d only have to drive to Nederland, hop on the tram and be in Winter Park 15 minutes later. At an elevation of 9,094 ft (2,772 m), it pierces James Peak. One of the countrys longest railroad tunnels, it was built between 19. ![]() We know the ski train has recently started up again during the winter, yet that largely benefits Denver riders, is relatively expensive and takes a lot of planning for skiers/riders. Moffat Tunnel (mf´t), railroad tube, 24 ft (7.3 m) high, 18 ft (5.5 m) wide, and 6.4 mi (10.3 km) long, N central Colo., in the Continental Divide, NW of Denver. This tram would be able to go forward and backward, shuttling people to and from the ski area. What if there was a multiple-car tram that picked people up every half hour at the east portal, shuttled them through the tunnel and dropped them at the west portal, a.k.a. The east portal of the Moffat Tunnel is a few miles southwest of Nederland, and has a large parking lot. The remaining assets of the commission were transferred to the state and the commission ceased to exist in early 1998.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪs readers may already know, Winter Park is just on the other side of the mountain from Boulder. Moreover, it had a lease lasting until 2025 that had little monetary value to the owner of the tunnel. The railroad had the right of first refusal and to match any offer. In January 1998, the newly seated commissioners sold the water tunnel to the Denver Water Board for $7 million and put the railroad tunnel up for sale. However, the motion ultimately failed to pass, perhaps because the commissioners feared being sued over the action. Before this process was set in motion, the existing commissioners defiantly threatened to vote the commission out of existence at their final meeting before the new commission would be seated. The bill specified that new commissioners would be named by the Governor (Roy Romer) to handle the liquidation of the commission and the transfer of assets to the state. Eventually, the resort agreed to purchase the land for $2 million (in 1996).īecause of these challenges, the railroad and the ski area join forces in 1996 to push forward a bill in the state legislature to dissolve the commission. By 1994, the commission was demanding rents and threatened to evict the ski resort and build a "Taco Bell". The commission began to agitate to recover money from Winter Park Resort to pay for land leased from the commission, known as the Evans Tract. In 19 the commission delayed a lease to the Southern Pacific Railroad for using the railroad tunnel for fiber optic cables. In 1990, a group of activist commissioners were elected who proceeded to use the resources at their disposal to sue the Winter Park Resort, the Colorado Arlberg Club and the City and County of Denver in order to represent the public interest against perceived abuses by powerful private interests. Named after Colorado railroad pioneer David Moffat, the tunnels first railroad traffic passed through in February 1928. The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia: Until the District is formally dissolved, the line item on homeowners property tax bills for this District will remain showing a "0.000" mill levy due to this District. However, the district continued to collect taxes for another year, resulting in a fund of excess cash of approximately $1 million. The bonds for the tunnel were retired in December 1983. The District was originally governed by a five-member elected commission and existed from 1922 until 1998. The district had the authority to sell bonds backed by real estate taxes in the counties served by the Denver and Salt Lake Railway, which was the original railroad tenant of the tunnel. The Moffat Tunnel Improvement District was an independent entity of the State of Colorado created to build and manage the Moffat Tunnel, a railroad and water tunnel under James Peak and Rollins Pass. ![]()
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