RAILING AT RAILS

Boulder Residents Don’t Want Rail Yard in Their Town

By Headwaters News, 10-26-05

Does the "B" in NIMBY stand for Boulder?

The Denver Post reports that the more than 400 residents who turned out to protest putting a 90-acre maintenance facility for the light-rail commuter system in Boulder ran out of adjectives to express their outrage.

Two of the seven proposed sites for the mile-long facility are in Boulder, but residents there said U.S. 36 Corridor offiicals should continue their hunt for a more suitable site.

Mass transit no doubt appeals to the environmentally minded residents, but the aspect of a maintenance facility for those light-rail trains stretching a mile along one or more of their neighborhoods, holds very little appeal.

The rail system is part of a years-long process to improve transportation between Denver and Boulder and FasTracks officials are still mulling over just where to put the corridor. Should the corridor shift to other metro areas, the two sites in Boulder would fall off the list of options for the maintenance facility.

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