[Balding_Eagle]

Things have probably changed since 1970.

I moved to Colorado Springs in 1986, and drove on a old narrow road with barbed wire fencing that still had natural tree branches for posts.

Today that same road is paved, 6 lanes wide, double turn lanes and carries heavy traffic.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I re-drove the old Lewiston Grade (aka, "The Spiral Highway") in Idaho a couple weeks ago. Dad used to drive the old road 50 years ago on trips to visit family. The old "guardrails" are still in place -- short wood posts with three strands of wire rope. This was LONG before the introduction of prefabricated metal guardrail. But the wire rope guardrails were a huge improvement over the first guardrails...

[cynwoody]

Things have probably changed since 1970.

I moved to Colorado Springs in 1986, and drove on a old narrow road with barbed wire fencing that still had natural tree branches for posts.

Today that same road is paved, 6 lanes wide, double turn lanes and carries heavy traffic.

Colorado Springs is a special case. My sister lives there. Her first exposure to the place was attending summer camp at Star Ranch in the 1960's. She remembers Academy as a dirt road.

We also lived in a small town in northern Indiana for a time in the 1960's. It got its first traffic light while we lived there. It now has two or three.

We rented a place on the lake, an old house on a point pretty much by itself. There is now a townhouse condo development there. But the roads around that lake are much the same. Minor safety improvements here and there, perhaps. But nothing like the changes the Springs has seen.