It's both amazing and appalling that a major economic lifeline which traverses some of the nation's wealthiest zip codes is starved of the essential financial resources for essential and safe transit. The I-25 lane expansion between Castle Rock and Monument used to be type of project which was routinely and efficiently executed as a normal course of events by those who're charged with the oversight of our highways; reasonable and responsible men and women agreed on their merits, allocated resources and proceeded. Instead, we're witness to an anguishing search for resources like the household which discovers it's running short until payday and starts looking under the coach cushions for spare change. Those reasonable and responsible men and women sadly have been replaced by a minority of recalcitrant zealots, who stymie any progress on a legitimate public function.