“Well, another day, another dollar / After I’ve sang and hollered,” begins Blackfoot’s “Highway Song.” In Colorado, it’s more like another day, another TABOR-dodging transportation fee collected — after politicians have sung and hollered about fixing our roads.

Alas, that dollar keeps ending up someplace else, leaving Coloradans stuck in traffic singing the same “highway song… on and on.”

Fortunately, Colorado voters may finally get the chance to flip the script so that transportation dollars actually fix roads, highways and bridges.

In 2021, the Democrat-run legislature passed Senate Bill 260, overriding voters’ clear rejection of a transportation tax increase in 2018. SB260 repackaged those tax hikes as “fees” on every Uber ride, Amazon package, UPS shipment and Grubhub delivery — plu

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