[bus man]

CDOT is nearing the final planning stages on its $1.2 billion proposal to remove the existing I-70 viaduct between Colorado and Brighton Boulevards, lower the highway approximately 30 feet below grade, and add toll lanes.

A below-grade highway is MUCH less intrusive upon the neighborhood it traverses than an elevated viaduct is. These whiny activists ought to be begging CDOT to crank up the construction equipment, like yesterday. Their environment will be far more pleasant once that concrete monstrosity is no longer staring them in the face every day.

Opponents hope the investigation eventually forces CDOT to reconsider alternatives, like re-routing traffic through I-270 and I-76, which CdeBaca supports. A federal lawsuit, focusing on air quality concerns and separate from this complaint, is pending against the project.

Rerouting I-70 traffic via I-270 and I-76 would dramatically increase total miles driven, and thus air pollution and resource usage. But hey, that's OK; just shift the problem to someone else. They're not important, right Latino activists?

[dsrtsage]

One thing liberals can never answer when immigration is the subject. Name 1 city that the phrase “population is dangerously low” applies to. Which city would be improved with even more people and traffic? Which suburb would be made better if it was even bigger and sprawlier? Which rural town would be better if it became a city, and sprouted its own suburbs? Would environmental problems increase or decrease if we added millions of people with a third grade education level?