So that's the name chosen for the massive transportation project that will devour Denver's spine over the rest of this decade. It could just as easily have been named Roadzilla. Or Detour de Force.
Names have power.
It is said that to name a thing is to know it, and names, labels, affiliations and the like have been in the news a lot lately. T-REX stands for Transportation Expansion Project. The real question is what people living along the construction corridor will stand for. We're transforming the dinosaur that is I-25. In other news about names, Vermont Sen. James Jeffords made huge news when he switched affiliation from Republican to independent.