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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.
With the interstate Highway from Denver to Glenwood Springs closed, how do they drive from Denver to Aspen?
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.
Drove that route a few years ago. It was beautiful and the engineering impressive. In August there was no snow to worry about. The stretch where the freeway is essentially a double deck is just cool, whatever else they think is wrong with it, it’s cool.
I live 1700 miles east of Denver, at the other end of I-70. There’s a sign just after you get onto I-170 westbound that says Denver 1700, Cove Fort 2200. Whenever we get onto I-70 my wife and I feel this great excitement that “The West” is in front of us. Just the other day we decided that when I reire in about 2 years we’ll get on I-70 and take it all the way to Cove Fort. And then, who knows? When we get to this stretch, I’ll remember to be careful, even as I marvel at the nature and the engineering, and mourn the loss of that area’s pristine state.
I loved driving that beautiful and scenic stretch of road.
I can't ever recall seeing such a non-qualifiction boasted about in an article like this before. He could be three days out of high school and merely accepted to an unaccredited correspondence school to claim this level of authority.
The old wagon road went up Clear Creek Canyon. They wisely decided not to engineer an expensive and unsafe 4-lane (which is now a 6-lane) highway up the same route, but to instead go up and over the nearby hills.
The author clearly hasn't driven more than 25 miles outside of Denver on I-70 past Idaho Springs where the highway follows every twist and bend of Clear Creek. The placement of any road is always based primarily on geography so qualitative comparisons like the author makes here are completely invalid. This neophyte author should change his major to journalism where he could spout off his unqualified opinions without any evidence or logic and have a chance of getting a pay check.
Well, they didn’t “destroy the canyon.” It is a beautiful engineering marvel.
Driving on an icy, snow-covered, 2-lane highway kills more people. Vehicles stuck in traffic for hours or inching along on a 2-lane highway produces more pollution.