[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.

[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.

[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.

[Newbomb Turk]

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

Follow the money.