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>When Interstate 25 was constructed through Denver, highway engineers moved a river. It was the 1950s, and nothing was going to get in the way of building a national highway system. Colorado’s governor and other dignitaries, including the chief engineer of the state highway department, acknowledged the moment by posing for a photo standing on bulldozer tracks, next to the trench that would become Interstate 25.

Archive: https://archive.today/BxMKZ From the post: >>When Interstate 25 was constructed through Denver, highway engineers moved a river. It was the 1950s, and nothing was going to get in the way of building a national highway system. Colorado’s governor and other dignitaries, including the chief engineer of the state highway department, acknowledged the moment by posing for a photo standing on bulldozer tracks, next to the trench that would become Interstate 25.

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I voted for increased taxes to widen the interstates and highways. They widened by one lane and made it a toll lane or they widened a couple of miles and said that was it. Never vote for higher taxes, they pull this shit where they “reallocate” the money to their pet projects, not what you voted for.

And I won’t take a bus or a train. When I’m in the city I don’t have extra time, and I’m usually buying supplies and food. I’m not going to cart around a cooler and 5 grocery bags on a bus or train. Also, using transport like that would increase the time it takes me to run my errands by 10 times or more. I stop at 5 to 10 different specialty stores around the Denver area, it takes me all day in my car. There is no public transportation within 20 miles of my home. This is true for most of Colorado. Unless you live in denver there is no reliable public transport, period. Trying to force it won’t work. They want us to move to the city, live in the pod and eat the bugs. I won’t. And anyone willing to do that or who is afraid to push back deserves the outcome, which is misery and culling.

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I agree entirely. Anything I would want to do by car that would take ~15-30 minutes will take a minimum of an hour and a half or more on public transit. While I have to deal with the homeless and the tweakers that might stab me or just outright start smoking some fentanyl next to me on the train.

It is just not worth it. Even if it takes longer in a car for some things it is personally safer and more flexible. There have been two shootings/stabbings at RANDOM at bus stops in the Denver metro in the last 2 months. In the last ~5 months there has been 2 shootings and at least 2 stabbings (at least one fatal) on busses in the metro. No thanks.