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    Paper Hunter sic_semper_tyrannis's Avatar
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    Default I've been living in the Denver area for 12 years, and I had no idea...

    ...that you can't get onto eastbound I-70 from westbound 6th Ave. Are you f'n kidding me???? What f-tard designed this road system??? Apparently I have never had to take this route in over a decade of living here, until finally today it happened. Well, TRIED to happen anyway. I just don't get it. 6th Ave is for all purposes an interstate. It's a divided highway with a 65mph speed limit, yet they didn't put a ramp to I-70? That would be like I-25 and I-70 just crossing over each other with no way to get from one to the other.

    I ended up having to take 6th west to Colfax, and then go back east on Colfax until THAT allows you to get onto I-70. But only after sitting at a completely useless red turn arrow to get onto the onramp. I am guessing that the proper route (had I known ahead of time) would be to get off at Denver West Pkwy and crawl through the Colorado Mills traffic and then get onto westbound Colfax and then get on I-70 at the same ramp I approached from the west.

    Holy hell that is stupid.

    Ok, carry on.

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    Good rant about a stupid design. There are two ways to do it though.

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    That would be like I-25 and I-70 just crossing over each other with no way to get from one to the other.
    You have no idea how much fun the mousetrap was 25 years ago.
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    Maybe if I-70 and 25 did just pass each other it would help with the flow of traffic.

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    They are currently working on that transition aren't they?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jerrymrc View Post
    You have no idea how much fun the mousetrap was 25 years ago.
    Oh yes, it was a peach.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    They are currently working on that transition aren't they?
    There was not one single iota of evidence of road construction when I passed through. So really, considering the speed at which road construction occurs, you're right, they're probably six months and $30 million into it already.

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    I've long heard tales of the old mousetrap. Share your wisdom!

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    6th ave to Indiana,
    Indiana to Colfax
    Colfax to I-70.

    Shitty, but that is how it is.
    Sometimes people trip and fall down stairs.
    Sometimes assholes push people down stairs.
    That doesn't mean "stairs are bad" nor does it make someone who pushes someone down the stairs any less of an asshole.

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    Torpedoes in the Mousetrap!!!

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