[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It’s official: CDOT, elected officials break ground on Interstate 70 widening project that’s expected to take 4 years (8/3)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Ground broken for Central I-70 Project: here's what to expect (8/3)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Central 70 Project Moves Forward Despite Neighborhood Opposition (8/3)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Ground broken on massive Central 70 Project to rebuild 10-mile stretch of interstate (8/3)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Ready or not, I-70 construction is coming (7/31)

[SaxxonWoods]

I found Denver metro to be unlivable 9 years ago and got out to the western slope. Best move I ever made.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I gather that some of these people that don’t want this stuff built also want open borders and everyone to come to America (including Denver). I would like them to be asked...”where did you think these people were going to live and drive?”

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I hope it's not as stupid as what they did with I-25. They created a single lane in the middle that could be converted to southbound in the morning and northbound in the afternoon.

The only problem is that in order to absolutely positively prevent cars from going the wrong way, they added all of these safety barriers that added up to the width of a second lane.

They could have had one lane going north all the time and one lane going south all the time but instead created some farcical science project.

[Paladin2]

That stretch of Interstate was overburdened when Stapleton was in operation in the 70’s.

[Beagle8U]

Name it the Chickenpooper Memorial Freeway.

[Migraine]

Hickenlooper said after the event. "It's really building the foundation for the next 50 years

50 years is probably about right (if progress is as slow as it's been in Dallas).

[TheNext]

NEVER FORGET

Democrats sold interstate I-25 as a freeway widening project. They bait and switched. They lied.
At the last moment, Democrats switched to an ugly electric transit that few people ride.

Denver is punished with long daily slow commutes. It is their sin of voting Democrat who solve nothing, but control and oppress.

I-70 built by Democrats will be an ugly, oppressive mess.

[Sequoyah101]

Drove a truck from Cheyenne to Pueblo over a year ago. I’ll do all I can to never cross that corridor ever again. That portion of the Eastern slope an much of Colorado is ruined forever.

The ditch highway idea is a mess. Central expressway in Dallas, I45, is miserable. I have seen temperatures in the ditch of about 150 degrees in stalled traffic. Pavement temps must be much higher. It is horrible.

Local needs to cross the ditch grow. It is easier to go under a through viaduct than to cross a ditch.

Denver is toast. That does not even address the water problem.

[Delta 21]

Who needs I-70 to get around Denver?

Just hop down on Colfax and go where you need to go.

(Double check your insurance first and leave yesterday so you wont be late!!)

[Trteamer]

That’s $120 Million/mile. Can you say “graft and corruption”?

[CodeToad]

This is the I-70 in Denver project conceptual picture. It boxes in the freeway, and anyone who knows road construction know that traffic will slow in the tunnels. It will be a nightmare after it is completed. It also boxes in the freeway to those lanes and cannot be expanded without staggering costs. Accidents and road repairs will do nothing but block that artery. This is the worst design possible. This was done to I-25 in Denver but without the top. It's a traffic jam now.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“The whole neighborhood started to change when the freeway went up,”

I remember Denver before there were freeways (1953). Go-stop. Go-stop. It took forever to get through town. It seemed every stoplight was set to stop everyone at every intersection.

[cicero2k]

This illustrates a remaining difference between Colorado and California. Both are Democrat dominated but the public sector is seen as rational in Colorado and irrational in California. Public works projects are approved in Colorado, in California all we get is a bullet train that will never operate.

[Trteamer]

That’s $22,727/foot. Is that a good deal?