RTD directors plan to decide Tuesday whether to promote a FasTracks sales-tax increase on the November ballot.
The Regional Transportation District board had planned to make the tax decision May 3, but FasTracks spokeswoman Pauletta Tonilas said officials have decided to advance it by a week.
FasTracks, which includes six new train lines for metro Denver along with other transit improvements, is short more than $2 billion of what is needed to complete the project by the end of this decade.
In 2004, metro Denver voters approved a 0.4 percent FasTracks tax, but since then, higher-than-planned construction-material costs and lower-than-expected sales-tax forecasts have battered the project’s budget.
Earlier this month, RTD launched its own nonscientific survey of residents’ sentiment for a tax hike, asking people to express their preferences on the transit agency’s website. RTD officials are expected to detail results of the survey Tuesday.
Jeffrey Leib, The Denver Post
