The Loop is dead

The local FLAP (Federal Lands Access Program) project affectionately known as the Infinite Loop is currently flapping in the breeze, as the only two bids submitted for construction were nearly double the estimated cost. The lowest bid submitted was 27 million dollars, and the project has been budgeted for 15.7 million.

Ooops. All those Estes Park trustees who were elected and re-elected (and would probably run again in a heartbeat if not for term limits or senility) based on ramming the Loop through and taking the decision away from the people who were actually directly impacted have egg on their face, to the tune of 3000 omelettes dropped from an airplane. Oh, you silly pro-Loopers, who tore down the Donut Haus and displaced so many other residents from cabins because the Loop was unstoppable, immutable, immortal. Looks like it just got stopped. A big goopy loopy hoop ran into a brick wall. What a bunch of big-talking dreamers and well-intentioned morons we elect, what a bunch of nonsense we subject ourselves to and continue placing in positions of prominence, folks like Bill Pinkham and Dave Batey. Maybe they have an extra $15 million (figuring in the inevitable cost overruns, even at $27 million) lying around. Probably not, because they are only adept at reaching into taxpayer or donor pockets, never their own. If Ward Nelson and Bill Pinkham and Dave Batey and Ron Norris and Jim Pickering want the Loop so badly, they need to start digging deep to shovel themselves out of all their engulfing, self-created bullshit, or at least create a GoFundMe site or sponsor a 24-hour telethon to raise the money from the folks they bilked and befuddled from 2013 onward.