Denver, CO
No ballot measure to fund Front Range passenger rail this year
Colorado’s Front Range Passenger Rail board on Friday decided to delay their pursuit of billions in funding from voters for two years, acknowledging they haven’t completed plans for train service linking cities from Fort Collins to Pueblo.
Board members voted 13-0 to continue planning instead of bringing a ballot measure this year.
Train frequency, speed, and whether to add “secondary stations” hasn’t been determined.
“We’re going to be taking a breather,” Front Range Passenger Rail District manager Andy Karsian said ahead of the vote. The delay will give “a nice opportunity for the board to step back” and develop a detailed plan and public persuasion strategy.
“It was always going to be a scramble to be ready to go in 2024,” board member Claire Levy said. “We wouldn’t (have been) able to demonstrate to the public that we’d made every effort to obtain federal funding” and RTD’s “lack of progress” establishing long-promised rail service linking Denver and Boulder would have “handicapped” the campaign, Levy said.
“I’m disappointed but also hopeful that now the system can be properly and fully planned out,” ColoRail president-elect Jack Wheeler said. “ColoRail wants Front Range Rail delivered as soon as possible but we also want it to be the best possible system with speed, service, and frequency. Today’s vote means that the proposal voters will consider in 2026 will offer the most impactful and highest quality rail system that it can be.”
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Congratulations, passengers aboard United Flight 5528 into Denver on Saturday night, you made it snow. More precisely, your airplane did, as did other aircraft landing at Denver International Airport that evening, but the United jet fared particularly well as a weather-maker, reports the Washington Post. In the story, meteorologist Matthew Cappucci explains that planes arriving between around 6pm and 7pm inadvertently flew through “a cloud of supercooled water droplets” and triggered a light snowfall. It was modest enough that nothing accumulated on the ground.
The phenomenon has been documented before, but it’s relatively rare and requires just the right combination of below-freezing temperatures and high relative humidity, explains a post at ViewFromtheWing. The “supercooled water droplets” mentioned above remain liquid under such conditions because they have “nothing to freeze onto to become snowflakes,” writes Cappucci. The jets give them that something—tiny particulates in the exhaust. The same general principle of “artificial ice nuclei” applies to the practice of cloud seeding, which CNN previously explained here. (More strange stuff stories.)
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Denver, CO
Denver Health unveils naloxone vending machine that offers live-saving drug free of charge
Denver Health unveiled a no-cost naloxone vending machine on its hospital campus on Monday. The vending machine distributes the life-saving drug naloxone, otherwise known as Narcan, free of charge.
It’s available to the community through the National Institute of Drug Abuse’s VEnding machine Naloxone Distribution in Your community, or VENDY, program.
“We really engaged our community members with substance use experience to help us build this program. They told us how this could work to build the program,” said Nicole Wagner, PhD, Assistant Professor, CU School of Medicine.
“This machine is simple and elegant and so is the message: your life matters regardless of your disease,” said Sarah Christensen, MD, Medical Director of Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment, at Denver Health.
Those who want access to naloxone can visit the vending machine at the Denver Health Hospital Campus, outside Pavilion K, located at 667 Bannock St. There are also medication and hygiene kits available for free 24 hours a day.
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