Colorado motorists have spent a long time waiting—much of it behind the wheel—for congestion to ease along a stretch of I-70 extending from Denver into mountain resort towns.
The wait times, typically at their worst on summer and winter weekends, will soon be over. The Colorado Dept. of Transportation (CDOT) is building a tolled, peak-period inner shoulder lane (PPSL) along the rocky 12-mile corridor that extends west from Veterans Memorial Tunnels in Idaho Springs to Empire Junction.