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Thread: OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
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04-02-2014, 03:10 PM #201
I was thinking it could have been more efficient overall to reroute WB into the new EB tunnel and blast the WB tunnel back in the late summer/fall before they opened the new EB tunnel to traffic. But I really don't get why they're spending time widening 2 lanes instead of doing 3, especially if the EB came in under budget....
^^^agree, do it now, but do the 3 lanes while they're at it.
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04-02-2014, 03:13 PM #202
Exactly. Had they started this project immediately after the other one, I-70 would have been an even greater cluster this winter than it already was.
As for the widening, yes, doing it now saves them a lot of money. I believe that essentially they are creating the space for a 3rd lane (because we all know it's needed) but I am not sure that the reason for not creating the 3rd lane is budgetary; I think they're not actually adding it because the existing infrastructure doesn't call for it. Going from 2 lanes off of Floyd Hill, then adding a lane, then going back to 2, would not have much if any positive effect. In the future, when they can upgrade the surrounding infrastructure, this will already be there and ready."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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04-02-2014, 03:34 PM #203Registered User
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04-03-2014, 08:35 AM #204
I70 at a standstill at Floyd Hill....why do I even bother?
3 jackknifed semis wtfLast edited by The SnowShow; 04-03-2014 at 09:05 AM.
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04-03-2014, 10:26 AM #205Rope->Dope
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^^ Is there a traffic issue you don’t miss ? ^^
My goodness, you couldn’t catch a break if it hit you square in the chest.
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04-03-2014, 10:53 AM #206
When is the last time it snowed and LL Pass didn't close? In the past, I can't ever remember them closing it because of 3" and 6" "storms". Now all it takes is a dusting.
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04-03-2014, 11:10 AM #207Registered User
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04-03-2014, 11:13 AM #208
It might... but given their track record this year it probably doesn't.
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04-03-2014, 11:24 AM #209
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04-09-2014, 08:01 AM #210
Delays while they close the highway intermittently this week.
Tuesday, April 7 - Thursday, April 10, 8a-6p and Friday, April 11, 8a-noon, 30 min traffic stops both directions throughout the day for blasting, but delays will be up to 1 hour as traffic clears the cue.
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04-09-2014, 04:51 PM #211
^^ thanks for the heads up
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04-10-2014, 01:46 AM #212
Anybody who is in here bitching about the fact that CDOT doesn't have enough money to do anything needs to do some research about a colorado law commonly known as TABOR. Tabor has crippled colorado's state government in so many ways, and is the reason RTD won't ever have enough money to build a train to boulder and CDOT is broke as shit
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04-10-2014, 11:20 AM #213Registered User
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It's not so much TABOR as it is stupid people who think gas taxes are socialism. Successful votes for higher taxes happen all the time.
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04-10-2014, 11:35 AM #214
If you remember correctly, several years ago voters APPROVED a new sales tax that was supposed to pay for the entire light rail network on all sides of the Denver Metro area. Look what happened there... RTD and CDOT incorrectly priced the right-of-ways and construction costs, and now they're nowhere near completing the build. In fact, it'll never get done unless we approve another tax increase (which I'm all for, BTW). RTD and CDOT have a lower approval rating than Congress these days, and it's well-deserved.
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04-10-2014, 02:42 PM #215Registered User
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CDOT actually has a rather high approval rating.
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04-10-2014, 02:46 PM #216
That vote also had incorrect revenue projections, as they were done pre-recession. Even had they priced everything correctly, we still wouldn't be there.
Regardless, while I agree with you and Bean that TABOR is not specifically/solely to blame for CDOT's or RTD's difficulties, TABOR does suck ass and causes our state an awful lot of manufactured difficulties (ie difficulties that only exist because of TABOR)."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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04-10-2014, 04:27 PM #217
I agree with that 100%. TABOR handicaps the state in many other ways outside of CDOT/RTD.
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04-12-2014, 07:44 PM #218
How much is tomorrow afternoon's drive back to the front range going to suck?
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04-13-2014, 12:38 AM #219
The new twin tunnels will be amazing…3 lanes both ways…they did that thing so fast, and clean, and pretty headache free…..for what it was.. glad they are at it again. need to wake up earlier.
Chicago, would have taken 4 years to get halfway done.Terje was right.
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04-13-2014, 07:11 AM #220
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04-13-2014, 08:28 AM #221
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04-13-2014, 07:35 PM #222"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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04-13-2014, 07:41 PM #223
Was a mess EB and WB at the tunnel and VP according to all the CDOT texts. One buddy went to Denver from Vail in 6 hours. Lotta spin outs and crashes. We came home from WY the back way to avoid that mess.
ROLL TIDE ROLL
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04-13-2014, 08:51 PM #224
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04-13-2014, 09:18 PM #225Registered User
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Heading eastbound, not even to Vail yet and have been sitting for half an hour. Nothing on cotrip either. Woo!
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