OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....

[The SnowShow]

Yeah, Silicon Valley thinks the Colorado front range is the next silicon valley...with everything that comes with it.

Yep. Tech is huuuuge: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/09...for-tech-jobs/

[Danno]

Yep. Tech is huuuuge: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/09...for-tech-jobs/

fuck I'm in the wrong line of work

[skaredshtles]

Working remotely 100% of the time (well, 99.95%) really has gotten me spoiled. I'm irritated almost ANY time I have to go out on the highways nowadays...

[smmokan]

fuck I'm in the wrong line of work

I'd rather blow my brains out than sit at a desk writing code all day long... I don't know how "software engineers" do it. I get the importance and challenge of some of their jobs, but holy shit I can't think of anything less fun.

[simple]

Writing code while blazed on amphetamines and monster energy is the bomb man. I'm gonna retire at 45 years old. My BMW matches my garage door color in Frisco. Living large and no gold diggers in my way.

[wkd-rdr]

...and I'll retire on those dorks buying my shit property for 10x it's value.
#spreadthewealth

[Lindahl]

I'd rather blow my brains out than sit at a desk writing code all day long... I don't know how "software engineers" do it. I get the importance and challenge of some of their jobs, but holy shit I can't think of anything less fun.

I really enjoy it. To each their own.

[fastfred]

...and I'll retire on those dorks buying my shit property for 10x it's value.
#spreadthewealth

unfortunately your right, watching too many of these "tech" people buying property at over inflated prices, it's pretty sad, guess no one tells them in code school to buy low sell high, happens every cycle and they are at the front of the line when prices go through the roof

[SkeezeBall]

fuck I'm in the wrong line of work

I was talking to a colleague and he said they've made offers to 3 different SW engineers straight out of college with a masters for $95k and have been turned down by all. Crazy

[The SnowShow]

Unfortunately, Denver was ranked No 1 again for the best place to live by US News/World Report. The influx is just going to go on and on...

[smmokan]

It's good for RE prices... if you already own property.

[stfu&gbtw]

I was talking to a colleague and he said they've made offers to 3 different SW engineers straight out of college with a masters for $95k and have been turned down by all. Crazy

What's crazy is that people still seem to think $95k is a lot of money. You think those dudes got masters degrees in data structures so they could shop at Brooks Brothers and drive a 3 series?

[wolfelot]

It sounds like the transportation bill is doomed.

[The SnowShow]

It's good for RE prices... if you already own property.

Thankfully I do. But the traffic. Oh the traffic. Our infrastructure is so completely overwhelmed it's scary. 25 reminds me of the 405 in LA these days.

[summit]

It's good for RE prices... if you already own property.

I always hear this and it is just silly. Rising RE does not help property owners unless they intend to move to a market that has appreciated at a lower rate... all it does is increase their property taxes.

[smmokan]

I always hear this and it is just silly. Rising RE does not help property owners unless they intend to move to a market that has appreciated at a lower rate... all it does is increase their property taxes.

Agreed.... I just assumed that was implied (and I was actually going to add that to my original post but decided not to). Of course I'd never sell my house in order to move somewhere else in the same over-inflated market.

[Danno]

Not exactly true. While I do intend to retire elsewhere, so the rising values do help me, not all areas of the metro area start at the same point or rise at the same rate. So the rising values would help me if I wanted to move from, say, boulder to Lafayette. But still I get your point, and it's a valid one, just not as blanket as you make it seem.

[The SnowShow]

Can someone explain to me why there are plans to submerge I70 north of Denver? Why not use that money to help fix the I70 problem between Evergreen and the tunnel?

Boston submerged their highway and aside from some new parkland, the project was a multi-billion dollar corrupt disaster and now people are stuck in bumper to bumper traffic underground.

[stfu&gbtw]

Can someone explain to me why there are plans to submerge I70 north of Denver? Why not use that money to help fix the I70 problem between Evergreen and the tunnel?

Boston submerged their highway and aside from some new parkland, the project was a multi-billion dollar corrupt disaster and now people are stuck in bumper to bumper traffic underground.

Did you catch the piece on NPR where they half admitted they have no drainage plan for 2013 style thunderstorms? Something to the effect that those were a 100 year event, so they weren't factoring it into their engineering.

[The SnowShow]

Did you catch the piece on NPR where they half admitted they have no drainage plan for 2013 style thunderstorms? Something to the effect that those were a 100 year event, so they weren't factoring it into their engineering.

Sounds incredibly stupid. Which sounds par for the course with everything I70 related [emoji849]

[The SnowShow]

Seriously. What is the fucking point of this? 1.2 billon to build.

[goldengatestinx]

It's good for RE prices... if you already own property.

It's not good. You can sell but then have to buy something at inflated prices. Unless you move somewhere shitty

[hatchgreenchile]

Snowshow - did you read the project summary?$1.2 billion is for the entire corridor reconstruction from Tower to I25. Only a small section is dropped below grade, and the capped section is 3 blocks. In terms of priority, yeah, it's a bit of mess going across the city on 70 five days out of the week, that's more critical for Colorado infrastructure improvement than improving the Floyd Hill to Eisenhower Tunnel Shuffle. I do have questions about if the cap will give a boost to the Elyria Swanson neighborhood, but it's certainly going to be nicer than trying to cross under that viaduct.

2013 storm put down like 4" in Denver, but go ahead with your concern that these below grade highways will resemble the St Vrain when a 1,000 year rain event occurs.

[stfu&gbtw]

^ lol... Next on 9 News, Flash Flood kills 5000 in Gridlocked Tunnel!

[summit]

How many hundreds of millions of the below grade?
How many hundreds of millions on the giant-bridge-that-is-a-park?
And how many millions would it take to get a drainage plan?