Posted on 08/09/2021 4:20:09 PM PDT by george76
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We should do it (and nearly everything) the way the Romans would have.
A straight line; to hell with anything or anyone in the way.
The Romans could have gotten a high speed rail system in years, not decades, and under budget.
“Snow” shed roofing over the Interstate.
At least they put it on the north [sunnier] side. [Of course the RR already had the other side.]
EASY PEASY!
Rename it “DAMNATION ALLEY” and charge a toll for the invigorating privilege of risking your life on the drive through. Survivors get a free bumper sticker.
Open a website highlighting the many thrilling and dangerous features.
Sell merch.
That’ll buff right out.
US 6 through there never seemed to have as much trouble.
With the interstate Highway from Denver to Glenwood Springs closed, how do they drive from Denver to Aspen?
The followed the Rio Grande RR along the river...which didn’t have many problems with mudslides (just snow)
The road has been there for at least thirty years...it was one hell of a construction project....the cranes were from Switzerland ....
The forest fires caused the recent mudslides....they should have seeded it right after the fires..
Independence Pass (No big rigs - 82) or (40) thru Kremmling, Craig, then Meeker.. or I-70 to Eagle, then Cottonwood Pass / dirt road.
I had to be at Colbran, Colorado by sunup. It was late winter, not too bad. Flights were messed up though and I missed a connection from Midland to Denver to Grand Junction so I rented a car and set out for Colbran.
In the full day that began with reports at 0530 and work I was already tired but in the drive through the canyon before the interstate I hit my limit. I swear that dang train was coming right down the middle of the highway. That is when I decided to find a place for a combat nap. I still made it to Colbran by sunup.
PS, the old truck driver’s trick of licking your finger and wetting your eyelids to keep awake does not work at all. I’ve driven clean off I-40, through a fence and wound up in a wheat field trying that one. You can only survive so many 70+ hour days. I guess others do similar things but it is an oilfield tradition to run to exhaustion.
Those were good days.
More preachy crap from Aspen. Guess what? Putting Aspen where it is destroyed the place, cost billions, and kills people too...
I remember this project. Peter Kiewit Sons Co. did the majority of the work as I recall.
It was fun to drive I-70, back in the 80’s. In Glenwood Canyon they made everyone sit for an hour, permitting one direction to pass through at a time.
They used a crane to put a backhoe way up there, on a little rock perch, pounding away at the rock face. The operator had 10X the nerve of a Navy flyer.
I drove thru that pass about 15 years ago. I remember thinking about how impressive the engineering was. Lots of development on the sides that was obviously dependent on that road and would not be there except for that road.
Instead of using cranes from Switzerland maybe they should have adopted the Swiss models for tunnel construction. Lived there a while ago and the tunnels through the mountains were great.
A Greyhound bus trying to circumvent the Glenwood Canyon closure got stuck on an unpaved high-mountain road in the Flat Tops..
22.5 miles up Coffee Pot Springs Road .. generally traveled by four-wheel drive and all-terrain vehicles ..
There were 21 people on board including at least one elderly female with heart conditions..
Greyhound bus managed to tear a hole through the bottom of its engine’s oil pan, creating..
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