Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build...
by scsilver on Saturday June 01, 2024 @07:23PM
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Can you lead me to some background on this? I'd love to look at some of the routes and law behind it.
Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build...
by kjkjadksj on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:56PM
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It was called the denver and rio grande railroad
Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build...
by kortilla on Sunday June 02, 2024 @01:19AM
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That system was slow and doesn’t solve the same problems. It’s competing with long range travel and all of those track routes were far slower than just driving.
The problems that Colorado faces are transportation within urban areas. Driving to salt lake and ski resorts isn’t an issue.
Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build...
by kjkjadksj on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:57PM
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All those routes could be made faster and it also had routes running down the front range too. Either way traffic on 70 into summit county is stupid and this is the salve. Already exists. Already graded. Already set up to serve vail and many other destinations that people rent a car from DEN to reach today.
What is even more tempting is that all this infrastructure and right of ways are still there. A lot of these towns have the old station land empty still, some have the old station preserved even. A lot of the rail grades are either sustained by freight rail or have been railbanked as trails. Its practically turn key as the hard part of gathering all this land was done over a century ago.
Too bad rail ambition is so paltry in comparison today.