OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....

[Ireallyliketoski2]

He's just taking advantage of the converging factors that all benefit what he loves to do, and he knows how to market himself and his services. I mean check out his Colorado page... there's enough demand for a Colorado forecast, a Copper forecast, a Steamboat forecast, an I-70 forecast, and a Vail forecast. Holy shit.

I'm just glad I'm not confined to the weekends, but still... week day traffic these days is as bad as weekend traffic 5 years ago.

I'm waiting for the Vail Back Bowls, Vail Front Side, Vail Blue Sky forecasts to come next, what a tool.

[Soups]

I'm waiting for the Vail Back Bowls, Vail Front Side, Vail Blue Sky forecasts to come next, what a tool.

So he's a tool for doing something he loves to do and making a market for it? Got it.

[The SnowShow]

Complete clusterfuck EB from Silver Plume to Idaho Springs bc of the construction. Basically a standstill for the past hour, including all frontage roads. Not sure what he fuck they're doing that's creating this.

[Hott Butt Mud]

1AM - 5AM is the new "Hot Zone" for powder skiing if you're coming from the Front Range.

Take note TunnelTrash™.

[montanaskier]

Driving back home today and EB was backed up from past Silver Plume to ID Springs....that's crazy.

[smmokan]

I heard CDOT's new initiative is to piss so many people off with I-70 traffic that the state's population trend reverses.

[jckstein]

today driving down the hill from Breck was awful. they need to figure this shit out.

[Danno]

what they failed to figure out is that this is a HUDGE travel week, and every day this week should have been treated like a weekend, ie no construction.

[goldengatestinx]

Your alternate is road salt, and that destroys the underbody of the car.

Mag chloride is worse than salt. It eats rubber and plastic parts, pits chrome and chrome plate, turns electric transformers into torches and is cancer causing. And ever walk where it's been sprayed? Crossed a few streets in Denver after it was sprayed...It's slippery as fuck. And as someone else said it doesn't work when it's colder than 25 F or so.

Some CDOT lackey is likely paid off by a supplier to authorize it's use.

[goldengatestinx]

I've been wondering the same things: How do they "close" the lane when not in use? What keeps people from switching in and out of the toll and middle lane to pass people in the middle lane? I've noticed the overhead scanners are up, but could easily be avoided if you're going back and forth between those lanes. I think they're every few miles?
The lane seems really really tight near the Empire exit to Dumont...I foresee some close calls with the jersey barrier or other cars. It will be interesting to see this clusterfuck play out.

Late to the bitch fest. When there's any weather, license plates will be slushed and snowed up. So no camera can see the plate...therefore it's free, right? Or some hairspray and dirt/dust and have a semi-permanent free pass?

[fastfred]

what they failed to figure out is that this is a HUDGE travel week, and every day this week should have been treated like a weekend, ie no construction.

much to logical for cdot plus they are probably 3-4 weeks behind schedule

I bet i70 will be an EPIC mess all weekend, snow in the forcast, snow and cold for the front range, bitchen early season conditions everyone will be headed to the mountains instead of the malls this weekend 8 shut downs between thursday and sunday???

[MakersTeleMark]

I'll take the under 3 for this weekend. I think the storm will fizzle, and the volume of traffic will actually keep the road in decent shape.

[Ireallyliketoski2]

So he's a tool for doing something he loves to do and making a market for it? Got it.

I'm glad you're caught up.

[Ireallyliketoski2]

Driving back home today and EB was backed up from past Silver Plume to ID Springs....that's crazy.

When will people learn?

[hatchgreenchile]

Supposed to be done by the 12th. We'll see.

[WTF is dat]

Driving back home today and EB was backed up from past Silver Plume to ID Springs....that's crazy.

2 and 1/2 hours from A-Basin to C470 & Santa Fe thanks to the construction mess.



Highlight of the drive home was when someone moving MUCH slower than me in the right lane decided to merge into the left lane without checking their blind spot. Slammed on my brakes so hard that I was burning rubber. Honked my horn and the guy flipped me off, oblivious to the fact that we narrowly avoided a serious accident.

[Foggy_Goggles]

Now opensnow is giving an i70 forecast. https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/i70/post/4393

If your traveling peak times, vibes.

[DasBlunt]

CDOT's new customer service response, "if you don't like the traffic, leave!"

I love it.

toll lane construction causing multiple months of traffic at peak times?....assholes.

[Riverdown]

2 1/2 hours from Gtown to University and Hampden on Tuesday at 4pm. Complete BS.

[summit]

I'm going to laugh at CDOT when the toll lanes don't make even a dent in the traffic or make it worse because people drive extra slow due to the tiny ass lanes. Hopefully somebody gets fired.

Over 10 years ago I said the best thing they could do is start a third bore at Eisenhower and perhaps by the time they finished they'd know what they wanted to put through it... lanes... trains...

[wolfelot]

How long is this construction going to last? Eldora for the win until then.

[montanaskier]

I'm going to laugh at CDOT when the toll lanes don't make even a dent in the traffic or make it worse because people drive extra slow due to the tiny ass lanes. Hopefully somebody gets fired.

Over 10 years ago I said the best thing they could do is start a third bore at Eisenhower and perhaps by the time they finished they'd know what they wanted to put through it... lanes... trains...

Zero thought into what's best in the future. Yes, huge projects are expensive but they get more expensive every year. 70 isn't sustainable in its current form.

[WTF is dat]

But no one wants to pay the taxes to improve the roads in Colorado.... or, *gasp*, repeal TABOR.


But hey, at least our taxes are low, right??? Republicans ftw

[stfu&gbtw]

But no one wants to pay the taxes to improve the roads in Colorado.... or, *gasp*, repeal TABOR.


But hey, at least our taxes are low, right??? Republicans ftw

You can't get something for nothing...

When the train plan came back at $20B or whatever it was, everyone said NFW. As though there's an alternative... Real mass transit is just table stakes for any city that aspires to be a major intersection in civilization. So now we're $75M further away from any real solution. I personally don't give a shit. As long as these "native" morons keep leaving the house at 6:30 and the ski area at 2, it all means dick to me.

[stfu&gbtw]

I'm going to laugh at CDOT when the toll lanes don't make even a dent in the traffic or make it worse because people drive extra slow due to the tiny ass lanes. Hopefully somebody gets fired.

Did you see the federal highway report where the 3rd lane is only certified for part time use because it doesn't meet minimum spec for a 3 lane roadway? It's so "colorado" to drop a ton of money into a half assed solution that they'll only use when it's virtually guaranteed to cause a problem. I can totally see the conversation...

USDOT: "Well, it's not wide enough to be a third lane, so you can't use it all the time."

CDOT: "That's cool... we only want to use it when the roads are too full, it's dark and snowing, and everybody's drunk."

USDOT: "Um..."