Youngsters Love Transit Too! – Colorado college students rally for better transportation

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A message to all those non-believers of Generation Y: Look, We’re not THAT bad.

Even with all our new-fangeled technology, hip music, fast-food obsessions, and what some would call “edgy behavior,” we are still trying to save this planet!

A group of students out of the University of Colorado Boulder chapter of CoPIRG (Colorado Student Public Interest Research Group) are giving up their Spring Breaks to fight for better transportation choices. Would you trade your Mai Tai’s on a beach for picket signs on hot asphalt? I know I wouldn’t.

But that’s exactly what these students are doing to rally for more RTD access points and more funding for the Colorado FasTracks rail/BRT initiative.

These students believe that in these hard times people are going to be looking more towards public transit and the State better give the people what the people want. According to students like Will Webster and Bryon Musante, the people want rail across the Interstate 70 corridor.

So Mom and Pop, before you think about lecturing about “Back in my day…” remember, back in your day you didn’t have light rail.

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