County cuts back road improvements for billionaire (Bill Koch)

[anti-alec]

Source: AP (via 9News)

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Plans to add guardrails sought by a Pitkin County billionaire for a road to his home are being scaled back.

County road officials say they may only install guardrails on dangerous parts of the highway.

Billionaire Bill Koch hired consultants to put together a plan for installing guardrails along a road leading to his home and held a community meeting on the issue.

According to the Aspen Times, a traffic engineer hired by Koch identified about 5 miles of roadway where a guardrail could improve safety, but only about a mile of guardrail is being considered.

Read more: http://www.9news.com/news/article/252891/346/County-cuts-back-road-improvements-for-billionaire

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He can pay more on his taxes or hire his own damn crew at his own expense to get it done. Don't freeload off Colorado, Bill.

Colorado has more higher priorities than your pathetic 5 mile road.

[tosh]

1. K&R

[safeinOhio]

2. County needs to sale that road

to some foreign investors. They can make it a toll road and charge users to pay for guard rails.

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. Entitlements much?

[orwell]

4. Internalize your profits...

...externalize your costs.

Same as it ever was...

[xxqqqzme]

5. WTF - this destroyer of

democracy is sponging off wage earners taxes. He hires a traffic engineer to tell the county where to put guard rails on the road to HIS lair but he can't HIRE persons to install them? I don't even live there and I'm hopping mad.

[Roy Rolling]

6. He's kidding, right?

Mr. "no government regulation" Koch wants the government to pay for guardrails for a road leading to his home? The really nervy part is that he created a phony "grassroots" effort by hiring a consultant and then held a community meeting to make it seem like it was someone else's idea.

Maybe he can get Scott Walker to donate some money to the cause . . .

[Snake Alchemist]

7. I'm all for safety, but who was going to pay for this? nt

[obxhead]

8. Wonder why he's pushing so hard for these guard rails?

Or more accurately, I wonder who the drunk is he's trying to keep from driving off the side of a mountain?

[aquart]

9. Freeloader.

[apnu]

10. Hey Koch brothers! Write a check! (nt)

[timesup]

11. Someone start lynching these selfish billionaires for treason, please!

Nothing else, that topic says it all.

[Pakid]

12. Just like all rich people

they always want us to pay for it. To cheap to ever pay their own way!

[savannah43]

13. How cheap can these weasels get?

[bloomington-lib]

14. They should build the rail, right after they raise his property tax to pay for it.