Geoff, I know you keep asking what there is to gain with all this. Below are the MOST meeting transcripts from CDOT for November and December 2011. T3RG and COIR were present at both meetings and did speak. Perhaps it will shed more light on their motivation.
Sorry they are both a lot of reading.

November
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December
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