OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....

**Skistack** · 08-01-2021, 07:10 PM

Well the did leave a front end loader there for them to dig themselves out.

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**mdblows** · 08-02-2021, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by Summit

Multiple car sized rocks on the lower deck... may be repairing it into the winter!?

9News just quoted CDOT as saying that the goal is to have it fully repaired by "the winter ski season"....so maybe open by November? Maybe?

**The SnowShow** · 08-02-2021, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by mdblows

9News just quoted CDOT as saying that the goal is to have it fully repaired by "the winter ski season"....so maybe open by November? Maybe?

Does this mean less truck traffic between Denver and Silverthorne? Do they all reroute north to I80 and those that need to deliver to towns in CO drop down from there, instead of taking the current detour?

Crazy shit:

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**SkiBall** · 08-02-2021, 06:10 PM

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...er-declaration

Scroll down part of the page and there is a 3+ minute drone footage vid.
Yeah, it’s gonna be a bit. And what is all that material going to do to the river? Brutal.

**MakersTeleMark** · 08-02-2021, 06:29 PM

Folks are already talking about 1st descents once the flows come up. Should be interesting.

**The SnowShow** · 08-02-2021, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by SkiBall

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...er-declaration

Scroll down part of the page and there is a 3+ minute drone footage vid.
Yeah, it’s gonna be a bit. And what is all that material going to do to the river? Brutal.

That drone footage is unreal.

**SkiBall** · 08-02-2021, 07:43 PM

Gonna be a helluva dogleg or two. And more than a few sharks.

**Skistack** · 08-02-2021, 08:14 PM

Looks like the deck is post-tensioned?

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**The SnowShow** · 08-02-2021, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Skistack

Looks like the deck is post-tensioned?

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I believe so. Looks like it.

Now I70 is closed near Georgetown due to a rockslide.

**Name Redacted** · 08-03-2021, 06:38 AM

So can we all just say that we hope all this moisture sticks around for winter?

I wonder when increasing the number of alternate routes by paving/maintaining some of the back roads becomes a real discussion for CDOT and the feds, rather than constantly battling this road through the canyon every fucking year.

**The SnowShow** · 08-03-2021, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by Name Redacted

So can we all just say that we hope all this moisture sticks around for winter?

I wonder when increasing the number of alternate routes by paving/maintaining some of the back roads becomes a real discussion for CDOT and the feds, rather than constantly battling this road through the canyon every fucking year.

Watch, this winter will be dry as a bone.

Seems like maintaining alternate routes would be really smart at this time. That’s why CDOT probably won’t do it.

**Name Redacted** · 08-03-2021, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by The SnowShow

Watch, this winter will be dry as a bone.

Seems like maintaining alternate routes would be really smart at this time. That’s why CDOT probably won’t do it.

You shut your whore mouth! It's gonna dump! God damn I need a good snow year this season.

I've lost count of how many times that Glenwood has been closed for significant amounts of time due to some kind of natural catastrophe since I moved out here. And the times in between those catastrophes, the damn road is always under construction. I know it was considered a marvel of engineering in its day, but at what point do they give up and come up with a better solution? That's basically the story of the entire I70 corridor though I guess.

**skaredshtles** · 08-03-2021, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by Name Redacted

You shut your whore mouth! It's gonna dump! God damn I need a good snow year this season.

I've lost count of how many times that Glenwood has been closed for significant amounts of time due to some kind of natural catastrophe since I moved out here. And the times in between those catastrophes, the damn road is always under construction. I know it was considered a marvel of engineering in its day, but at what point do they give up and come up with a better solution? That's basically the story of the entire I70 corridor though I guess.

It'll eventually have a *lot* more tunnels. Lots and lots of long tunnels.

**Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo** · 08-03-2021, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by skaredshtles

It'll eventually have a *lot* more tunnels. Lots and lots of long tunnels.

That would be my guess. There is already too much infrastructure invested in the current path and where would this reroute go? Locals in places like Cottonwood Pass and Meeker and Steamboat will raise holy hell if they try and put an interstate through their backyards. And absorbing an interstates worth of traffic through local alternative routes would put most communities west of the tunnel in a shit fit if they had to do that all year long. Look at the complaints from communities on the current detour already. And many local alternatives are county roads, like Cottonwood Pass, and the state can't force them to improve it or do anything to it, it's up to the counties.

I don't really see what the big deal is with a couple weeks closure, not much happening west of Gypsum these days anyways.

**hatchgreenchile** · 08-03-2021, 10:06 AM

That drone footage gives you a great perspective of the rise up to the Flat Tops. You sure aren’t rerouting it up Coffee Pot !

Just build the monorail already…

**summit** · 08-03-2021, 10:39 AM

Call Elon! He can Bore a Hyperloop to solve this!

**Danno** · 08-03-2021, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by The SnowShow

Watch, this winter will be dry as a bone.

Seems like maintaining alternate routes would be really smart at this time. That’s why CDOT probably won’t do it.

I'm all for CDOT bashing when warranted, but I'm going to cite conversation #436 (TABOR) from this thread, and point out that budgetary constraints are not insignificant here. Our infrastructure is crumbling, and CDOT simply doesn't have the money to fix it all and upgrade the other options.

**Name Redacted** · 08-03-2021, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by Danno

I'm all for CDOT bashing when warranted, but I'm going to cite conversation #436 (TABOR) from this thread, and point out that budgetary constraints are not insignificant here. Our infrastructure is crumbling, and CDOT simply doesn't have the money to fix it all and upgrade the other options.

Well technically interstate highways are also funded by the highway trust fund which gets it money from federal gas tax.

**fastfred** · 08-03-2021, 01:12 PM

Cdot management is why people hate government they have bought millions of dollars worth of cars and equipment built lots of office space and garages in the past few years but can't patch any potholes between Frisco and breck someone even took the liberty to spray paint one last summer "fix me" dbag extrodinare hinkelopper put some dip shit in charge of cdot a few years ago whose main purpose was to sell our highways to private companies he had no experience w roads at all luckily he was kicked to th he curb

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**The SnowShow** · 08-03-2021, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by fastfred

Cdot management is why people hate government they have bought millions of dollars worth of cars and equipment built lots of office space and garages in the past few years but can't patch any potholes between Frisco and breck someone even took the liberty to spray paint one last summer "fix me" dbag extrodinare hinkelopper put some dip shit in charge of cdot a few years ago whose main purpose was to sell our highways to private companies he had no experience w roads at all luckily he was kicked to th he curb

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Punctuation is fun!

I’m thinking avalanche tunnel-like tunnels for the bad spots. The mudslides would pour over the road and into the river.

**grskier** · 08-03-2021, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by Summit

Call Elon! He can Bore a Hyperloop to solve this!

Have they done it through any real rock yet...

RE: Budget.. It's finally infrastructure week and we can absorb 1/4 of all new spending just in I 70 west of Eisenhower.

**fastfred** · 08-03-2021, 03:11 PM

285 in park county closed for construction
50 closures fir construction on and off
70 closed for 6 months
Pretty ugly
Watched people go agro in silverthorne today including a semi

Colorado =winning

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**SkiBall** · 08-03-2021, 03:59 PM

There have been a lot of road rage calls this summer. But honestly not sure if any different from any other year, but this has been the worse summer for our local traffic in quite some time.

**bendtheski** · 08-03-2021, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by SkiBall

There have been a lot of road rage calls this summer. But honestly not sure if any different from any other year, but this has been the worse summer for our local traffic in quite some time.

We’ve seen a steady increase of people brandishing weapons driving, but last week got our first shots fired. Something folks might want to keep in mind before their next brake-check; a lot of people have short fuses lately.

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