The real problem on I-70.
PING.
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.
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.
The real problem on I-70.
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.
““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.
when obama was a freshman Prez and before he confirmed to everyone that he was nothing but an empty suit and an ideologue with a truckload of kommie and grievance axes to grind, i thought that a perfect project to include in the proposed trillion dollar infrastructure “stimulus” would be a third bore for the I-70 Eisenhower tunnel under the Continental Divide ...
not just for ski traffic, but because this east-west highway is of major economic and strategic importance to our nation ... silly me ... Colorado ended up with lots of mile-long road resurfacing projects where the big “stimulus project” propaganda sign probably cost as much as each resurfacing project ...
An excuse for a large tax increase. Probably on gasoline.
Maybe if Colorado gives Elon Musk a lot of money he can invent an electric teleporter.
I can really sympathize with these folks. When i lived in Utah it took me 45 minutes to get to one of the four ski areas in the Cottonwood canyons. And an additional 15 minutes to access one of the three ski areas in Park City. Torture i tell ya!!!