Talk:Front Range Passenger Rail

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Names seem to be multiplying. We have "Front Range Commuter Rail", "Ranger Express", and now "Rocky Mountain Rail Authority." This opens up the question of what we should call this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tfox~enwiki (talk • contribs) 10:47, December 18, 2006 (UTC)

We should name it Rocky Mountain Rail Authority. Here's something I found on the website:

Front Range Commuter Rail (FRCR) was formed in 2004 as a Section 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation to promote the high-speed rail line along the Wyoming-Colorado-New Mexico Front Range. The scope of the region’s transportation needs have grown to include the Colorado I-70 mountain corridor and the name Front Range is not accurate. Official forms have been filed for FRCR to do business (DBA) as the Colorado Rail Association (CRA).

The Colorado Rail Association is a little too broad from this specific subject. We could use Ranger Express, as it's the specific name for the rail line, but as far as this article goes, we also want to cover the association that's currently doing the work. So I think Rocky Mountain Rail Authority is the best one. PerryPlanet 18:56, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that RMRA is a better title for this entry, although as FRCR and RMRA are separate entities perhaps two separate entries are more appropriate. RMRA is a governmental agency created to apply for money from Colorado DOT and to conduct the present high speed rail study, and it probably makes sense to have the RMRA article be the principal article on Colorado High Speed Rail.

Also, some mention should be made of the Rail Relocation for Colorado Communities study (the R2C2 study) that, while separate from the high speed rail study, is a parallel effort that if built would divert the Powder River Basin coal traffic to and from Texas out of the Denver-Pueblo corridor by building new freight right-of-way on the plains east of the Front Range. I don't see that study covered in wikipedia.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.64.74.44 (talk • contribs) 14:09, April 10, 2009 (UTC)