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Thread: OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
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06-23-2019, 07:24 PM #6826
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06-24-2019, 12:45 AM #6827Registered User
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cutting diversity programs won't do a damn thing. the budget shortfall is massive, and every day, $200,000 RVs driven by 67yo white guys go through the gates for free on a senior lifetime pass and they get 1/2 price campsites that crowd out younger generations and young families, while the driver bitches about how his tax dollars pay for the parks and they should do a better job managing the parks with his tax dollars.
crowds suck. a lot of the increase is due to retiring white americans. a lot is chinese tourism in certain parks. there are increasing numbers of girls who never cared about the outdoors until they found out they could get validation on social media by wearing yoga pants in front of a roadside turnout, or dudes with beards who act like they're the first guy to use an axe to build a fire and drink whiskey in front of it. but I don't think that the instagrammers are as big of a growth driver as you'd like to think.
the park service isn't really in a position to tell people to fuck off when it comes to visiting their public lands. it would be great if we could manage it better, but we need increased tax money going into the parks if you want it managed better. it's not a matter of a few measly million dollars. it's not as if they could just "run it like a business" and solve our problems.
diversity outreach in theory is meant to widen the constituency that cares about the parks as our nation becomes less and less white, since white americans have been the main constituency for so long. other groups might be about social justice, but the park sees it as a pragmatic policy at relatively low cost (again, paying a diversity outreach coordinator at each park $35k+benefits is fucking chump change) good idea? bad idea? i don't know. but it's really not a major driver of crowds, and it's certainly not the reason we can't afford to fix anything or to eliminate invasive weeds.
maybe take some of your tax cut and donate it to the national parks foundation if you really give a shit instead of just wanting to be angry about something.
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06-24-2019, 12:49 AM #6828
Hey Lester you should post more.
Originally Posted by blurred
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06-24-2019, 09:19 AM #6829
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06-24-2019, 12:18 PM #6830
A Sunday afternoon post ski drive that didn't suck!
Strange new worldthe drugs made me realize it's not about the drugs
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06-24-2019, 12:50 PM #6831Registered User
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06-28-2019, 12:20 PM #6832
OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
Sounds like CDOT is going to be starting another bandaid fix to the Idaho Springs shitshow. A westbound toll/breakdown lane from the twin tunnels to Empire, open during “rush hours” only. Opens 2021 🤦
Riddle me this: you drive up Floyd Hill in three lanes, which goes down to two and causes a huge backup, then it’s two lanes for a few miles, then the highway goes back to three on days the lane is open? Why wouldn’t the lane be built all the way back to the merge? 🤦
I imagine the lane will get jammed with powderhounds wanting to pay the toll to get ahead of everyone, only to cause a massive backup in the lane. And with enough traffic, there will be backups where the lane ends and merges back.
Just blow the fucking highway up already and build the tram.Last edited by The SnowShow; 06-28-2019 at 01:30 PM.
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06-28-2019, 12:56 PM #6833
mono-RAIL!
mono-RAIL!
mono-RAIL!
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06-28-2019, 01:11 PM #6834
Build that wall! Build that wall!
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07-01-2019, 10:18 PM #6835Banned
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The fake benefit of 2 minutes for the current toll lane that cost taxpayers $26 million wouldn't make a dent in the westbound backups.
Monorail won't work. Physics says it won't work in the mountains and people won't pay huge dollars to spend more time traveling and humping gear from car to bus to train to bus and back again. And summers would also kill it with lack of paying customers.
RTD ridership is diminishing in the metro area. Why would anyone spend billions for a bottomless pit of debt?
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07-02-2019, 07:10 AM #6836
OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
I’ll bring this thread back around. Make 285 a real highway to Fairplay and/or tunnel through Mosquito Pass. Give people more options than one falling apart highway.
Or better yet: make Cheyenne or Sinclair WY the next big thing.
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07-02-2019, 07:34 AM #6837Registered User
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A) If it was an easy, no traffic commute to the mountains on a magnificent, freshly paved, heated, snow free, 10 lane highway, you would still have dickheads in Jeep Grand Cherokees driving 100 mph, tailgating and eventually rolling their vehicles in front of a semi, causing hours of backups.
B) The mountains are full, why does everyone think we need to fix this whole I70 traffic thing? It is a valve, and the only thing keeping the mountain towns from being ruined even more. Let people stay home and avoid skiing on weekends because they are afraid of traffic! I'm gonna let you folks in on a little secret: Occupancy and sales for mountain businesses are through the roof! That sure as hell ain't because I70 was better this season.
C) I want a monorail so that I can go to concerts in the city without driving and there better be a goddamned bar car.
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07-02-2019, 08:13 AM #6838
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07-02-2019, 08:27 AM #6839Registered User
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07-02-2019, 08:40 AM #6840
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07-02-2019, 09:10 AM #6841Registered User
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Google tells me that a high speed lift goes 12mpg - Google Maps says 20 miles from Idaho Springs to A-Basin, another 6 to Keystone and then 10 to Breck
Parking lot at Idaho Springs and 3hrs lift ride later and your at Breck - has to be less than a billion, right?
Make them heated seats and with a bubble, grab a sixer for the ride home
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07-02-2019, 10:05 AM #6842
I'd check your Google maps again.
And if a high speed lift gets 12mpg, that'd be amazing.the drugs made me realize it's not about the drugs
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07-02-2019, 10:24 AM #6843Registered User
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07-02-2019, 10:36 AM #6844Registered User
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07-02-2019, 11:39 AM #6845
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07-02-2019, 01:31 PM #6846Registered User
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Oops - 12mph instead of mpg (which is likely about .1mpg)
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07-02-2019, 02:02 PM #6847
Cops cops cops on I-70. Pulling over fast fred and his convoy.
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07-03-2019, 07:48 AM #6848Registered User
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radar detector
listening to lots of country music these days while driving around, keeps me mellow and happy
all these punters can have this town for the week
does anyone drive around with their windows down anymore?
is there anyone left in texas? think they are all colorado
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07-07-2019, 10:07 PM #6849
Holy fuck i70 in the summer
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07-08-2019, 07:53 AM #6850
OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....
The end of a holiday weekend.... shit, any day last week was bound to be a disaster.
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