The real story that I have heard directly from BNSF is that RTD never even asked for a price to use BNSF's tracks and that the BIG LIE is that the price they got from BNSF was just so enormously high that the project as promised to have "light rail" from Longmont to Boulder and on to Denver was just too expensive and we would have buses instead.
It is not what we voted on and not what we voted for and not what we were promised.
We voted to spend the public money on train service--not bus service
It is time for RTD to come clean and publish the response to their question of costs from BNSF.
Seems like they should have published it years ago when the question was asked.
The public's business must be done in public---not back rooms.