Colorado Aims to Expand a Main Artery, but Beleaguered Neighbors Balk

The New York Times ^ | February 19, 2017 | Julie Turkewitz

[Bryanw92]

>>sending tens of thousands more cars by their door.

So, let me get this straight. If they widen the highway, it will magically spawn more cars? And, of course, women and children hardest hit. Latina women and children!

Internet clickbait site headline writers make more sense than the NYT these days.

[PrairieLady2]

Denver definitely needs highway expansion, no doubt! BUT...widening isn’t the only option. They can build UP, too! Put through way on top, exits to business on bottom. And nobody looses a home or business, or it at least minimizes losses.

[Balding_Eagle]

Considering how many miles are involved, demolishing so few homes and business seems to be a miracle.

[dp0622]

If hillary won, I WAS going to expand some main arteries.

Same problems in the 5 NY boroughs.

Except graft is probably 10 times worse here, which makes funding huge projects very difficult.

[Menehune56]

...overwhelmingly Latino community still reeling from the road’s construction back in 1964.

53 years ago? Who writes this stuff??

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

a low-income and overwhelmingly Latino community still reeling from the road’s construction back in 1964.

Pardon?

They have not been able to adjust in over 50 years?

The entire place should be leveled and roads built over where the houses were.

[blueplum]

Is there an attack on highways now? I’ve noticed several articles lately bemoaning freeways going through ‘disadvantaged’ neighborhoods - the same freeways that have been there for 60 years. I suspect a reparations for people who live under bridges plan is being hatched.

[Zathras]

More media lies.
There is a highway now around Denver which bypasses the entire downtown.
The mistake they made was it is a fairly expensive toll road.
Oh and was a Democrat who had it built and decided it should be a toll road.

[House Atreides]

The road under discussion was built BEFORE THE PEOPLE IN THE ARTICLE WERE BORN. There’s every possibility that that community was not “Latino” prior to the road construction in 1964. Most of the current residents likely moved into that neighborhood to take advantage of the lowered housing & rental costs. They KNEW what they were getting into.

[Paladin2]

Some I70 east of I25 is already elevated.

[Paladin2]

R U Robert Moses II ?

[Paladin2]

Colorado sounds Spanish....

[freedumb2003]

>>Denver definitely needs highway expansion, no doubt! BUT...widening isn’t the only option. They can build UP, too! Put through way on top, exits to business on bottom. And nobody looses a home or business, or it at least minimizes losses.<<

I think since the Prieta Loma quake many places, even those not prone to earthquakes, don’t want to double deck if there are alternatives.

The entire USA is earthquake-prone, just some parts more than other.

[livius]

What the heck is the thing with the “marijuana boom” drawing in 1000 new households a month? This has nothing to do with Latinos or any other ethnic group. But it’s pretty depressing when drug production - especially of a drug that keeps the population dumb and docile - turns out to be a state’s major industry.

[Paladin2]

Ok, here’s a good question:
How are Italians not Latinos?

Hispanics are Spanish speakers
Latino expands same to include Portugese
Why not be inclusive of Italian?
Maybe there should be a grouping of Romancers?

[bus man]

So, let me get this straight. If they widen the highway, it will magically spawn more cars?

Actually, yes. It's called "induced demand." When a road is made better (by adding more lanes, for example), more people who previously found some other way to go (took the bus, used other routes, drove at off-peak times) start to use the expanded road.

That said, if they do nothing, things are guaranteed to get worse. And I-70 through eastern Denver is already a mess; only 6 lanes wide (3 each way), IIRC, and much of it is on an elevated viaduct that has probably passed its useful life span by now, not to mention being visually as ugly as sin. Widening the road, and depressing it below the surface streets, would be a huge improvement not only for people who drive there, but for the unfortunate souls who are stuck living next to it.

[BenLurkin]

It is amazing that the NYT thinks anyone would take that claim seriously.

[dp0622]

Liked what I read about him until I found out he’s the reason the UN is here instead of Philadelphia!!

[Newbomb Turk]

Denver. The city that banned real wood fireplaces but legalized pot smoking.

Follow the money.