OFFICIAL I70 BITCH THREAD....

[Name Redacted]

Just wait till Amazon+Hyperloop+Olympics= full on Front Range Meltdown. Can't wait to cash out!

[The SnowShow]

Just wait till Amazon+Hyperloop+Olympics= full on Front Range Meltdown. Can't wait to cash out!

None of that will happen. Starting with Amazon.

[hatchgreenchile]

You guys sure know how to find all the morons on the road.
I'm either lucky, or naive.

[Name Redacted]

None of that will happen. Starting with Amazon.

Says who? The house next door just sold to a guy who works for Amazon who is already planning on being transferred to Denver.

[smmokan]

Says who? The house next door just sold to a guy who works for Amazon who is already planning on being transferred to Denver.

Maybe it's for the gigantic distribution facility they're building in Thornton?

[skaredshtles]

Maybe it's for the gigantic distribution facility they're building in Thornton?

Or AWS.

There are already a metric shit-ton of Amazon jobs on the Front Range...

[Name Redacted]

OK, I made that up anyway.

Amazon is going to blow up the entire state and I stand by my prediction. I 70 will be converted to parking for the poor, while rich Amazonians fly to the slopes in their drones.

[goldengatestinx]

Holy shit [emoji849]

That's reminds me of another thing that happened in Boulder yesterday...some asshole was backing up in the middle lane on Walnut St in front of the brewery, because he missed the entrance to the parking garage across the street. Meanwhile, traffic was flying by him on both sides, and near crashes in back from cars having to merge left or right, including two bikes. Just a complete self-entitled douchebag. Needless to say, my horn was on for 30 seconds and my finger extended as I passed the jerkoff.

Boulder last week, heading back to Golden from work south on Broadway. 4:30 ish typical back up through town. Stop and go I'm in the right lane debating whether to stay on 93 or take the longer way home up the canyon.

Dumbfuck in right lane decides he's more important than everyone else and slides into the gap at the light left by a well intended driver in the left traffic lane (so he doesn't end up on the intersection if the lane doesn't clear the intersection before changing). Right lane opens up and I make it through...he's blocking both left turn lane and left traffic lane...and the light turns red.

As I go by I see he has CA plates.

This illustrates one of the reasons why CA is so fucked up and can't keep traffic moving with 6 lanes in each direction...behavioral problems.

[goldengatestinx]

OK, I made that up anyway.

Amazon is going to blow up the entire state and I stand by my prediction. I 70 will be converted to parking for the poor, while rich Amazonians fly to the slopes in their drones.

Positive thoughts...no Amazon HQ2 in CO...no Amazon HQ2 in CO...

[Danno]

You guys sure know how to find all the morons on the road.
I'm either lucky, or naive.

Well, last Thursday I drove I-70 to the Western Slope, and you wouldn't believe what happened! No traffic. I drove back yesterday, and it was so fucking crazy, I hit no traffic again! I must be doing it wrong.

[hatchgreenchile]

Thursday I drove I-70 .

I think I figured it out.
You're probably one of the good drivers Danno.
New tires going on now. See you on the I70 demolition derby track.

[The SnowShow]

Says who? The house next door just sold to a guy who works for Amazon who is already planning on being transferred to Denver.

Doesn't make sense geographically IMHO. Atlanta or Baltimore or somewhere on the EC makes more sense. Also hearing Austin is the front runner.

[smmokan]

It certainly is a nice little PR stunt they’ve got going.

[hatchgreenchile]

Nobody has a clue on where they’ll go . Luckily Denver didn’t drop their shorts from a tax break / incentive standpoint


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[Telemarketeer]

Nobody has a clue on where they’ll go . Luckily Denver didn’t drop their shorts from a tax break / incentive standpoint


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Agreed on this. Denver has a lot going for it. Pretty sick of towns giving out tax breaks to corps that put their locals out of business.


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[Kevo]

Denver and CO need tax revenue way more than we need large corporate campuses right now. Giving out tax breaks is short sighted, especially given how strapped we are due to TABOR.

[WTF is dat]

the buses have permission to use the shoulder when the travel lanes are backed up. It's supposed to be as good as a train.

The funny thing is that those busses are projected to be faster than the train if the train is ever built. The ridiculous routing going through Louisville and Lafayette and single-tracking before the train makes it to Boulder Junction will really kill speed and headway times.

Ridership for that line is projected at less than 10,000 per day because of the routing and how slow it will be. It’s ridiculous really.

The truth of the matter is that Boulder should have focused on building actual BRT along the US 36 corridor and abandoned the train years ago. Because BRT is able to go where people actually need it.

[Danno]

The funny thing is that those busses are projected to be faster than the train if the train is ever built. The ridiculous routing going through Louisville and Lafayette and single-tracking before the train makes it to Boulder Junction will really kill speed and headway times.

Ridership for that line is projected at less than 10,000 per day because of the routing and how slow it will be. It’s ridiculous really.

The truth of the matter is that Boulder should have focused on building actual BRT along the US 36 corridor and abandoned the train years ago. Because BRT is able to go where people actually need it.

agreed. They call what we have now "BRT", I actually had an RTD person at the bus stop argue with me about it. By the time the train gets built, we'll need it, because the toll/hov lane will be full and it will be obvious that we don't have BRT.

But yeah, the train as designed is ridiculous. It should have gone down the center of 36. Or at minimum have a fucking 3rd track so you can run express trains. Express trains, a concept that seems to be too complicated for RTD, which doesn't seem to understand that people are much less likely to ride the train if it, ya know, takes much longer than it does for them to drive.

RTD really pisses me off.

[The SnowShow]

An express train from Boulder seems extremely logical and it's amazing their plan is so fucked up.
It's the same with Denver bus routes: i.e. lCherry Creek to downtown. It's like a 10-15 min drive and yet taking a bus takes forever because of the circuitous routes and barely anyone uses it.

[skaredshtles]

I think what we need, then, is more traffic. You know - to make the public transportation a more attractive option.

BRING ON AMAZON HQ2!!!!

[WTF is dat]

RTD really pisses me off.

Yup, they certainly seem to make some awful decisions. Don’t even get me started on the slow speeds on the west line and the stupid routing of the R line through “Aurora town center”

Union station is also a disaster, even though it looks pretty. The lack of covered shelter is laughable, and the fact that there are no “through” connections is appalling. The fact that you have to walk three blocks to transfer between light rail and commuter rail is incredibly short sighted. Union Station is simply a real estate development - it is far from a world class train station.


RTD is also chronically underfunded, and accounts for less than 2% of the State transportation budget. That certainly doesn’t help things.



As the state continues to grow and expand in population these planning decisions will certainly come back to haunt us.

[smmokan]

An article in the Vail Daily said 70 closed 500 times last winter. Awesome.

[The SnowShow]

An article in the Vail Daily said 70 closed 500 times last winter. Awesome.

That's pathetic. We need chain laws like CA.

[SkiBall]

I only noticed a couple times, what's the big whoop?

[fastfred]

An article in the Vail Daily said 70 closed 500 times last winter. Awesome.

don't know if it was the same article but the summit daily had one the other day

it pretty much quoted cdot saying they are just shutting down the highway for the heck of it now, if the weather and traffic get bad they don't even need a bunch of accidents to justify shutting down