Posted on 08/24/2019 11:57:59 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
CDOT could always run a four-lane tolled bypass around the canyon for that part of I-70. More room for traffic, and a relief route when rockfalls in the canyon block the road.
When I drove eastbound through the canyon in 2014, there appeared to be a portion of the westbound lanes shut down for work on one of the bridges. There seemed to be a drop/gap of several inches in one of the joints.
I prefer buses over trains. No need for new right-of-ways or tearing up streets for trolley lines.
Are you channeling Willie Green?
Not really. I just found it an interesting story, even if such a project is completely unfeasible, as it would likely be.
Oh look! another boondoggle that won’t pay for itself, that will have to be supported by the taxpayer and which people won’t use. This only puts money into the coffers of political cronies and makes the flying unicorn brigade happy.
Another fraud to facilitate the siphoning off of billions of dollars to a black hole where trillions of taxpayers dollars have already gone.
B.S. and you can bet the construction industry and their unions have open or secret funding to the outfit that did the study.
What will rapid transit as proposed do, more than anything else long term?
It will ENCOURAGE development along the proposed corridor, which will explode the population along the corridor and over the long run DEFEAT the idea of alleviating congestion.
Congestion can actually discourage the cause of congestion, convincing people and business to move out of the congested areas.
just no...nada....NEVER....please stop mucking up America.....its bad enough that we have to put up with these ugly wind turbines everywhere look.
Why stop at Eagle instead of Grand Junction?
If there ever was a high-speed rail line out west that makes sense it would be the LA/San Bernardino to Las Vegas run, as anyone who has been on I15 on a weekend can testify. From Barstow on there would be little in the way to go around. Cheap, easy construction. So why hasn’t it been done?
Easy - it actually doesn’t make sense.
Although I wonder what it would be like if it was there all along.
Public-private toll road operators deeply saddened.
They would be retrained to sleep at the new teleporter ticket booth, just like they do at the toll booth.
‘The more things change, the more they stay the same.’
The old French guys understood this, and they only had highspeed donkey carts.
Talking to long time locals they looked long and hard for a way not to go through the canyon. There’s a dirt road over Cottonwood Pass that was doable. The problem is now the freeway has to get through Glenwood, an even more impossible task.
“On a warm summer evening
On a train bound for nowhere...”
h/t Kenny Rogers
Gigantic waste of money, as all rail transit projects are.
You got that right! Our so called light Rail was suppose to cost 4-7 billion. Try 45 billion and climbing..
Florida has had the same problem for decades in trying to build a light rail or Maglev between Disney World and the Orlando airport. Disney is hostile because stops along the route would help competitors, while the car rental companies categorically oppose such projects.
yet another bazillion dollar train no one will ride because once they arrive at the train depot, how do they get to their final destination(s) and subsequent destinations until they take the train back to where they came from?
Are these the same experts who said CA’s train to nowhere would be an economic boom.
Sorry, but Ocasio-Cortez has her priorities, a high-speed rail train from Hawaii to the mainland. She just needs to tax all those pesky corporations some more to get it started.
Same for one to Port Canaveral along side the Beeline.
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