I'm sorry but you're just wrong about this. First, you have to go back and do the research and understand that **you were indeed promised buses** as well as the commuter rail. The BRT on the Turnpike was always part of the program and was bot a substitute for the train.

BNSF **could not give RTD a price** until there was an engineered project accounting for all of the construction that would have to take place. **Voter approval was first necessary to get the funding to conduct the engineering and design. BNSF could not possibly give RTD a price for this before it was designed. Don't you understand that your premises do not reflect how things actually work? BNSF's oil tanker hailing business then grew exponentially with the oil boom and that caused its eventual price to skyrocket -- in recent years, not 2004 when the election was held.

See? BNSF is to be the operator of the service and it is not possible for it to give a price before design is completed. It isn't "selling" track.