Pagosa Springs Daily Digest Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Ty's Take
The county's hint about ditching road maintenance comes at the worst possible moment, right when Highway 160 reconstruction is tying up the main artery through town and the Rio Blanco fire's still burning up there in the San Juans. Nobody expects government to have unlimited money, but the timing here suggests somebody's not thinking past next quarter's budget. Ask any rancher trying to move cattle on back roads, or any tourist heading to Wolf Creek, or any local who remembers what happened to county infrastructure the last time we started deferring maintenance: it doesn't save money, it just spreads the cost around until the damage gets expensive. If the county's serious about this, the public deserves to know the real numbers, not hints.
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