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Colorado Aims to Expand a Main Artery, but Beleaguered Neighbors Balk
The New York Times ^ | February 19, 2017 | Julie Turkewitz

Posted on 03/12/2017 7:14:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Paladin2

We’re MORE LATIN than the folks from South America!!

I dont know who the hell invented the words latina/latino.

Seems a lot of words have been invented the past 50 years.


21 posted on 03/12/2017 7:57:53 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Menehune56
...overwhelmingly Latino community still reeling from the road’s construction back in 1964.
53 years ago? Who writes this stuff??

Should be obvious.
Hysterical drama-queen snowflakes, from some wannabe school of higher learning with not enough safe places...

22 posted on 03/12/2017 7:57:54 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: dp0622

He liked building roads and fooling around with Big Water.


23 posted on 03/12/2017 7:59:24 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Let them pave their new freeways with Hash Oil...


24 posted on 03/12/2017 8:00:40 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

what about by passes or loops? there has to be other possible ideas.


25 posted on 03/12/2017 8:01:24 PM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: bus man

Eastern I70 was bad for rush hour traffic in the middle 70’s.


26 posted on 03/12/2017 8:02:46 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Paladin2

I saw that :)

We need a TWO LEVEL BQE.

Finish the abandoned highway on Staten Island that the liberal rag here destroyed as it was only a few miles from being finished (enviro whackos). This was in the 70s.

FDR needs expanding.

But NO TRAIN from Staten Island to Manhattan!!

Though the commute would be much easier, obama’s drunken sons might start showing up.


27 posted on 03/12/2017 8:02:48 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How about just telling the suburbanites to live closer to their jobs?


28 posted on 03/12/2017 8:05:39 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: bus man
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.

Better stick to buses...
You're not even close to having even a scintilla of highway engineering design and maintenance experience in snow country, do you.

"Ugly as sin" sort of gives the agenda away.

29 posted on 03/12/2017 8:06:25 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: PrairieLady2
They can build UP, too! Put through way on top, exits to business on bottom.

The liberals in Austin tried that. It created traffic jams that run for miles. Of course, the limousine liberals can bypass it at 85 miles an hour on a tollway too expensive for the proles to use.

30 posted on 03/12/2017 8:13:16 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Colorado is one of many states continuing to grapple with the legacy of the 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act, which laid the map for thousands of miles of interstates. It also sent many highways rolling through black, immigrant and low-income urban communities, saddling people from the Bronx to Los Angeles with pollution, disease and blight.”

I thought smallpox blankets was coming for a second there.

The people moved to those homes well after the highway was built and the future plans were in place. The air tests much cleaner in that area today than it did 40 years ago and it will test better with twenty thousand more cars.


31 posted on 03/12/2017 8:18:11 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: PrairieLady2
They can build UP, too!

Exactly. Denver is a nightmare to get around in.

32 posted on 03/12/2017 8:18:17 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I just got done celebrating Black History Month. Obama and Kaepernick are both history. Hurray!)
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To: blueplum
Is there an attack on highways now?

Highways have been attacked for some time.

33 posted on 03/12/2017 8:19:37 PM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: PAR35

I think they should just build smaller cars so more cars fit on the roadway. (Sarc)

Better yet close all the roads and make everyone walk.


34 posted on 03/12/2017 8:21:03 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Black neighborhood looking for even more freebies beyond what the project already has earmarked for them.


35 posted on 03/12/2017 8:31:07 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: PAR35

I don’t live in Austin, but have, oh, maybe 100 hours driving experience there: Even when traffic is moving quickly, or perhaps especially when traffic is heavy but moving quickly, is a quite, uh, an “interesting” experience. Miami or Chicago (and I have many hundreds if not more hours driving in the latter area, over my life) is much easier.


36 posted on 03/12/2017 8:31:17 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

By the time the third lane is done commuters will be switching to personal flying vehicles.


37 posted on 03/12/2017 8:52:44 PM PDT by proudpapa (Trump Pence earned it.)
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To: blueplum
Is there an attack on highways now?

I would've included this link in my earlier response if I'd seen it earlier. This recent article isn't about exactly the same thing as this thread, but it's about transportation in Denver. (I wasn't searching for a recent link but found this from someone else's site.)

Denver needs better mobility so that people don’t “leave the city faster than they came,” Michael Hancock says

But editor David Sachs’ story about Hancock’s remarks to a bicycling conference this month carried a hopeful headline: “It Sounds Like Hancock Is Serious About Prioritizing People Over Cars.”

Last week, as part of a Downtown Denver Partnership breakfast panel on increasing mobility options, Sachs laid out one challenge for city leaders — while framing it in a way Hancock likely wouldn’t.

“It’s too easy to drive,” Sachs said. “It’s not enough to make transit better and biking better, which the city is very, very slowly doing. But they get it. We have to make driving harder — and that’s really hard to say, politically — but are we going to just do that after the traffic gets really, really bad?

Bikes first, not people!

38 posted on 03/12/2017 8:53:11 PM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: PrairieLady2
That's a remarkably bad idea. This used to be a double-deck freeway.


39 posted on 03/12/2017 8:54:28 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: PAR35; PrairieLady2
They can build UP, too! Put through way on top, exits to business on bottom.

Elevated roadways just far enough from the foothills to catch ice and snow will create a traffic and maintenance mess.

Hate it when a ground level lane closes for maintenance? Try that with an elevated span, when maintenance is controlled by a cowardly, political mayor and his henchmen.

40 posted on 03/12/2017 8:59:32 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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