Mick for Mayor

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Mick for Mayor

Transportation Record

Roundabout completed on time and on budget with $4.8 Million from CDOT and developer exactions (Highlands).

Four lane HOV section Snowmass Canyon ($107 million) and Basalt to Buttermilk HOV funded and completed.

Maroon Creek Bridge funded with local match and CDOT's $17 million.

Mick lobbied for and the legislature eventually passed RTA (Rural Transportation Authority) enabling laws. With the power to create multi-jurisdictional transit systems, he then campaigned with many others to expand RFTA's funding and reach from the upper valley all the way to Rifle.

Supported and campaigned for the valley-wide acquisition of the Denver and Rio Grande Right of Way from Aspen to Glenwood Springs.

Successfully requested the inclusion of RFTA transit facility in state-wide ballot measure in 2005.

Selected as the Colorado Association of Transit Agencies Citizen of the Year.

Elected and served almost a decade as the chair of the five-county Intermountain Regional Planning Commission for the State Transportation Advisory Committee.