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Just got home from the mountains, where a Cantelope truck caught on fire on I70, causing huge delays from Georgetown back.
Get into town and all is well, until 6th and I25, Oh, My, Gosh.
Head North on 25 Instead, to I-70, flooding at Washington Street!
Do a loop de loop around Pecos to I-70 proper, finally making time, get to 225, accident.
Must have taken me 1:30 to get from I70 and Lookout Mountain home.
What a mess.
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Question. There was obviously a storm in town. Bad I take it? The whole town?
As I was coming down I70, I saw these mountains off to the East. Strange, I thought, there aren't mountains east of here. The Sky was so black, and weird looking, it looked like mountains.
-John
470 to 285, is the route you were trying to think of, truck, navigation system. :(
To be fair, I don't think I had turned on navigation then.
Bad on me, I guess.
-John
So, basically what you?re saying is it was a pretty typical metro area commute these days?
So, basically what you?re saying is it was a pretty typical metro area commute these days?
Everywhere is an hour from everywhere
This was special. I'm pretty sure it was related to storms, but I was up in the mountains and didn't see, hear of the storms.
If I'd known a storm had come through, I would have known I was route finding.
Was there a huge storm at roughly 4PM our time?
-John
It sprinkled a little at my house around then.
I was riding up in the mountains most of the day and got home around 3:30 right before it sprinkled.
From my perspective, the whole city was down.
There was no way to engage the city, or get home.
Traffic was abominal. Just crazy bad, and a normal 30 minute drive turned in to a 1:30 adventure.
Terrible, terrible, traffic, today.
-John
ChickNorris
07-20-2019, 19:18
There was noise.
BPTactical
07-20-2019, 21:02
Cantelope tonight, the truck caught fire......
I saw that truck smoking while it was sitting on the bridge, traffic had already started to slow on the exit to Georgetown, then saw the first flames, we got in the traffic circle for eastbound and we were out of there. Sheriff was right behind it when I heard 2 tires blow, all kinds of looky-loos taking pix/video.
BPTactical
07-21-2019, 07:22
CDOT's new motto:
"You Can't Get There From Here"
Any LEO's want to chime in on why it takes five hours to investigate a accident and open a highway to traffic?
It would seem all major injury and fatal accidents close down highways for 4-5 hours. Doesn't matter if its a pedestrian crossing I-25 at night or a multi vehicle mess.
Aloha_Shooter
07-21-2019, 08:28
Any LEO's want to chime in on why it takes five hours to investigate a accident and open a highway to traffic?
It would seem all major injury and fatal accidents close down highways for 4-5 hours. Doesn't matter if its a pedestrian crossing I-25 at night or a multi vehicle mess.
I am NOT a LEO but ...
In major injury or fatal accident, do you want them just sweeping the debris aside and pushing traffic through? What's the damned hurry when someone died or got seriously hurt? They need to establish proof of what happened for the courts (because there will inevitably be court cases, especially if they DON'T have a thorough analysis from the start) and to fix the roadway if it was a roadway issue. You know as well as I do that the city or state government are not going to want to spend money fixing a road that they could use to buy votes.
With digital cameras, GPS and digital range finders I don't see any improvement in clearing the scene. If witnesses are available and the available evidence shows who is at fault, why have a full blown investigation? Even simple following to close or distracted and ran into the ass end of somebody else is a easy one that should be cleared up quickly.
All users are paying for the inconvenience of waiting for the traffic jam. Not to mention the chain reaction accidents that happen from slow downs.
Witnesses give different accounts and liability is not usually just 100% and 0%. With an injury or fatality, there is a much higher chance of everyone trying to prove comparative negligence.
3.5 hours from the tunnel to Georgetown. The line cutting douchebaggery was ridiculous. The trailer was burned in half.
3.5 hours from the tunnel to Georgetown. The line cutting douchebaggery was ridiculous. The trailer was burned in half.
I can only imagine, it is bad enough in light traffic.
How many people jumped off at Bakerville and then back on in Silver Plume?
I can only imagine, it is bad enough in light traffic.
How many people jumped off at Bakerville and then back on in Silver Plume?
Started at the tunnel. The chain up stations were the worst. One jumped and 10 followed. Saving grace was vehicles in front said fark you and they were stuck for a while. A white truck with an orange bike jumped off on the first Georgetown exit. Saw lines of vehicles doing this. WTOB was 4-5 behind me and ended up 3 ahead. 8 cars ahead?! You're a wiener. We're all stuck in the shit show. Deal with it!
Started at the tunnel. The chain up stations were the worst. One jumped and 10 followed. Saving grace was vehicles in front said fark you and they were stuck for a while. A white truck with an orange bike jumped off on the first Georgetown exit. Saw lines of vehicles doing this. WTOB was 4-5 behind me and ended up 3 ahead. 8 cars ahead?! You're a wiener. We're all stuck in the shit show. Deal with it!
Sucks you had to go through that.
Some people think they're more specialer than the rest of us.
I can only imagine, it is bad enough in light traffic.
How many people jumped off at Bakerville and then back on in Silver Plume?
We did this. Saved us at least an hour or two. The frontage road was relatively unused from what I saw. I saw maybe 10-15 vehicles take the Bakerville exit before us, but the majority of vehicles just stuck to the golden path.
So now I am trying to make a cheat sheet of where I-70 Frontage roads are and are not in preparation for next time. It really was a great feeling whizzing by what might have been an hour or two of traffic.
Interestingly, from my first looks, it seems like the majority of I-70 IS covered by Frontage Roads, and the exception is more the rule. I'd previously always thought they would be more of a hassle than they were worth, but not after Saturday...
-John
We did this. Saved us at least an hour or two. The frontage road was relatively unused from what I saw. I saw maybe 10-15 vehicles take the Bakerville exit before us, but the majority of vehicles just stuck to the golden path.
So now I am trying to make a cheat sheet of where I-70 Frontage roads are and are not in preparation for next time. It really was a great feeling whizzing by what might have been an hour or two of traffic.
Interestingly, from my first looks, it seems like the majority of I-70 IS covered by Frontage Roads, and the exception is more the rule. I'd previously always thought they would be more of a hassle than they were worth, but not after Saturday...
-John
Yup, helps to know the area.
My cheat sheet up to the Tunnels, Loveland Pass. Please correct any errors you see.
Tunnels (Loveland Pass)
Bakerville to Silver Plume Frontage Road
Georgetown Loop Railroad (No Access to Frontage Roads)
Georgetown to US-40 (North to Empire), Lawson, Downieville, Dumont, Idaho Springs, to Central City Parkway (North to Blackhawk)
Fall River Road (No Access to Frontage Roads)
Johnson Gulch intersects with US-6 Clear Creek Canyon Road to Golden and US-40 Frontage Road to Floyd Hill, Beaver Brook, Evergreen.
Chief Hosa (No Access to Frontage Roads)
Buffalo Overlook (US-40) to Paradise Hills Park-N-Ride, Genesee, Mother Cabrini Shrine, to Mt. Vernon Canyon, Wooly Mammoth Park-N-Ride, to Golden, and finally turns into Colfax.
-John
I don't know how helpful this is for anything other than speeding, but when traveling Eastbound, any off-ramp that has a sign for Chief Hosa, does not have an EB on-ramp.
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