I-70 WB closed sometime prior to 5:30am due to a crash at Genesee, it's a parking lot all the way from Chief Hosa down to Lookout exit. Bet that makes it all the way to 470 in the next 10 minutes.

Did similar. Out the door at 8am, 70 to Loveland Pass, then Copper to Minturn to Vail and home. A little slowing on the way back but not much and home before noon. Such beautiful colors in the...

Some things never change, even in summer
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Eastbound, the bridge at exit 216 just east of the tunnel.

An emergency repair project will be starting work next Monday night.

More emergency repairs.

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There’s federal money in maintenance but what qualifies can be complicated. Regardless of funding it’s hard to get out and patch stuff up in the middle of winter, and the rutted pavement can only be...

Which bridge?

You can stop pretending Loveland is some secret locals hangout, it hasn’t been for almost ten years.

I tried that a few weeks ago. Didn’t leave Winter Park until almost 6. Still backed up over the pass and took two hours to get to Empire. At least I got to pay way too much for burgers almost as good...

Explorer lift at WP is down.

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I wasn't there today, I'm going to sit in traffic for 3 hours trying to get home tomorrow. My status as of about 9am this morning:

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9am Berthoud Pass update

https://cocam.carsprogram.org/Live_View/US40243ParkingLot.jpg?1674922260000

It's cheaper to do it fast. The price nobody wants to pay is closing the road for months on end.

CDOT decision makers prioritize minimizing disruption at any given time to the traveling public, over total traveler-hours lost or extra costs from longer construction durations. A typical bridge...

7am the maroon is all the way back to Genesee.

And closures on 285, and every canyon a parking lot.

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Do you hate convection ovens, or just calling convection ovens 'air fryers?'

https://kdvr.com/news/local/i-70-eastbound-closed-east-of-eisenhower-tunnel/

Shaping up to be a long season

Ok but what if trucks were required to use the train during busy times?

It hasn’t ripped to the ground wall to wall yet.

Only if "the right" is a shoulder. If it's a travel lane then pass everyone on the right, as is customary on I-70.

I left home at 10 today and got held up for ten minutes in Idaho Springs because CDOT had 70 down to one lane for paving. Fast and easy coming home.

It's expected to be done this year.

It begins.



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Horrible.

Over.

Any guesses at what time(s) Vail Pass will close and for how long?

It was avoiding typical rush hour congestion. Pena-70-470-285 is going to be the fastest and simplest option most of the time, construction hasn't really made traffic much worse through there - it's...

Likely not, the ramp is 5 miles away from where he crashed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22221769/

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I left Loveland about 1:30 yesterday and traffic back was fast and easy. Today looks like a different story.

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CDOT doesn't do enforcement.

^ There are two more videos they have on IG and FB, one of them has made it to twitter:

https://twitter.com/ColoradoDOT/status/956965177945026560

https://twitter.com/coloradodot/status/956650497879916544

CDOT can meme. Who'd've guessed?

I don't believe the poll results.

I suspect a gas tax increase would've gone over better than a general sales tax.

http://kdvr.com/2017/12/29/76-pounds-of-methamphetamine-seized-in-i-70-traffic-stop/

The biggest surprise in this story is that CSP pulled someone over for sitting in the left lane.

That bridge needs to be replaced, and current standards would require a new alignment, which would require many millions of dollars in geotech work because it's effectively a slow landslide. Not...

I'd bet on the repair being complete sometime this evening.

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The Facebook comments are outstanding.

Semi crossed over the median from WB, across the EB lanes and slammed in to a support column for the bridge. Horrible wreck but I-70 will be open sooner than later. There are guys standing on and...

@ColoradoDOT
2 minutes ago
Closed- #I70West @ Eisenhower Tunnel b/c crash;Expect delays

It was back open 20 minutes later. Best just to use gmaps for your traffic info, CDOT's gotten better at updating conditions but is still too unreliable to count on.

@ColoradoDOT
4 minutes ago
CLOSED- #I70West @ Vail Pass Summit,MM 190,b/c slide-offs W of Summit

We're already at four closures on 70 since the precipitation started.

1: I-70 WB Closed at Avon due to a rollover crash.

If each direction of Vail Pass counts as a separate closure, I'm going with over.

If not...still over.

I'm more looking at it as total volume reduction which is why I referred to Jerry wadding it up rather than "tourons."

No real need for a rental car once you're in the resort town.

Indy Pass, not long before it closed for the season. So Septemberish, maybe early October.

Could be on to something here...

Make snow tires mandatory for I-70 travel -> fewer rental cars going up to the mountains -> more people taking shuttle vans -> fewer Jerrys wadding up in half an...