The real problem on I-70.
Posted on 02/24/2019 8:17:38 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“Friends don’t let friends drive I-70.”
The tongue-in-cheek mantra is often uttered by Colorado skiers and snowboarders who frequent resorts far from the crowded mountain corridor, which funnels thousands of vehicles onto two lanes west of Denver every winter weekend.
“It’s nightmarish. Hours and hours in the car. I think the last time I went to Keystone (typically a 90-minute drive from Denver), I spent four hours getting there and five hours getting home,” said Cole Capsalis of Denver. “There was more time in the car than skiing.”
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Yogi B.
I participated in the 2000 timeframe with some Colorado Senators for creating a solution to the I-70 mountain area problem. The problem is that liberals tend to eat their own. A solution proposed by one liberal group is denounced by another liberal group, often for environmental concerns.
One of the solutions I liked was the monorail project. It had very little impact to the environment. By using a two-way rail system it could move about 25% of the road traffic to and from ski areas, the main traffic pattern.
Using a widening of I-70 to four lanes, the mono-rail of course, allowing airline flights from Centennial and Jeffco airports, and adding more special purposes busses, the traffic issue could be solved.
However, every political interest wanted more of the money for their pet project, leaving not enough for the other projects. It would take all solutions and not just one to solve the I-70 mess.
The problem will not be solved.
Coloring books and blankies desperately needed!
Snowflakes have discovered that mountains hinder travel.
Oh why has the cruel world targeted them so?
Never in the history of the world has any generation suffered so much.
Californians bringing their activities to Colorado. The answer to the congestion is also easy to solve but with the intelligence of the Californians toward logic, it won’t get any better.
Lived in Colorado Springs....went the back way to ski
I wonder if the lift lines are a lot longer...
I try to stay ahead of these issues. I left Denver metro 10 years go for the nearby western slope. Now I’ve moved almost to the Utah border for the winters and spend the less crowded summers back near the ski areas.
It’s great but requires two houses.
It won't. From 1995 until about 2001 (or so) I went out to Denver and then west, most times to Vail. What they were doing was a recipe for disaster. The commuting suburbs were extending to Golden and Breckinridge and further west. The fragile environment was "saved" one scrub pine at a time, but ignoring the big picture. At the time, it was all about not building highways unless there was a bike trail next to them. HUH??? When civilization comes tumblin' down, there is an incomprehensible number of Illuminati retreats in protected areas surrounding the ski resorts. Water is an unsolvable problem with the needs of ski resorts, the needs of the population which that area can't sustain, and requirements that water gets to CA and other places that don't have adequate supply.
I never did "get" the charm of Vail. In an overpriced hotel, nestled next to a noisy highway and rotary, overcrowded with buildings with fake charm, overpricing, snobby people, and environment so dry it isn't even pretty, it's all there. The monorail idea makes sense. The mess that the planners made of things does not.
The real problem on I-70.
They added a single toll lane to I-70. Colorado is doing that across the States, adding toll lanes. They add revenue generators and taxpayers are pissed that they already pay high taxes but the money only goes to creating more revenue generation lanes and very expensive bike paths.
It’s good to be a retired or self employed person when it comes to skiing. You can pick your schedule.
Every once in a while they allow the Winter Park Ski Train to travel from Union Station Denver to the Winter Park Ski Resort.
Is the I-70 ski traffic really that bad? I had no trouble getting to Whitetail recently.
(ducks)
I agree with the above comment about Vail. Awesome mountain, but crappy resort. I’ll take the vibe of Stowe over Vail any day.
1. Get the government out of deciding or blocking any plans.
2. Let private industry offer and build solutions, sans government interference.
GOVERNMENT is the problem.
““It’s nightmarish. Hours and hours in the car. I think the last time I went to Keystone (typically a 90-minute drive from Denver), I spent four hours getting there and five hours getting home,” said Cole Capsalis of Denver. “There was more time in the car than skiing.””
First World problem.
It was bad when I lived there in the 80s and early 90s. It sounds really bad now. I gave up skiing back then because of the costs, add 4 hours there and 4 hours back and forget it.
I thought weed was going to solve all the problems.
The heavy traffic will solve its own problem. Don’t like it, don’t go. If OK with it, go.
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