Editorial: Troubled toll road's sale is best of a bad situation
Source: The Denver Post Editorial Board, 8/29/2007 08:24:31 PM MDT
We're not overjoyed about the takeover of the Northwest Parkway by foreign investors. It's hard to cheer about the prospect of paying tolls for 99 years to travel the 9-mile link between Interstate 25 and the Boulder Turnpike - as the sale ensures will happen.
But the sale to Portuguese-based Brisa and CCR of Brazil was probably the best outcome available for the financially troubled toll road - a necessary link in the metro area's still incomplete beltway network.