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Old 01-27-2009, 10:32 PM
 
Location: Pueblo - Colorado's Second City
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Highway 50 is a major us highway so you should not have any problems on it.

 
Old 01-27-2009, 10:35 PM
 
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Highway 50 from Grand junction is a four lane road. It took the state long enough to complete it but thankfully it has been four laned for several years now. Grand Junction's elevation is a little over 4500 feet, and Montrose is just over 5800 feet. Should not be a problem for you.
 
Old 01-27-2009, 10:45 PM
 
Location: Pueblo - Colorado's Second City
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Highway 50 from Grand junction is a four lane road. It took the state long enough to complete it but thankfully it has been four laned for several years now. Grand Junction's elevation is a little over 4500 feet, and Montrose is just over 5800 feet. Should not be a problem for you.
The state moves to slow with highway 50, they are still working on 4 laning it from Pueblo east to the Kansas state line. The road needs to be 4 lanes through the entire state.
 
Old 01-28-2009, 08:19 AM
 
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The state moves to slow with highway 50, they are still working on 4 laning it from Pueblo east to the Kansas state line. The road needs to be 4 lanes through the entire state.
That's it--ruin the one of the most scenic corridors in the state with a ****ing four-lane highway. Why the hell don't you move someplace like California where you can enjoy that kind of "progress," instead of constantly pining for that crap to happen in Colorado?
 
Old 01-28-2009, 09:06 AM
 
Location: Pueblo - Colorado's Second City
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That's it--ruin the one of the most scenic corridors in the state with a ****ing four-lane highway. Why the hell don't you move someplace like California where you can enjoy that kind of "progress," instead of constantly pining for that crap to happen in Colorado?
Thats it adding 2 more lanes to the road would completely ruin the scenery and not make the road safer.....

 
Old 01-28-2009, 09:09 AM
 
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kkelloww wrote:
Is highway 50 nice, wide, and flat between Grand Junction and Montrose?
It's 2 lanes in each direction, mostly flat, but there are some hills. No mountain passes to deal with. Have a safe drive!
 
Old 01-28-2009, 09:43 AM
 
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Thats it adding 2 more lanes to the road would completely ruin the scenery and not make the road safer.....


Yeah, that's worked so well on I-70. It's got more accidents and is closed more now than it EVER was when it was 2-lane. And, of course, you never saw Glenwood Canyon before the 4-lane raped it. I will absoutely gaurantee you that if a proposal is floated to 4-lane US 50 through the Arkansas Canyon and over Monarch Pass, I will use every lobbying skill that I have to try and kill it--and, yes, I do have experience (lots of it) doing that. More highway building is absolutely the LAST thing we need to waste money and resources upon.
 
Old 01-28-2009, 09:49 AM
 
Location: Pueblo - Colorado's Second City
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Yeah, that's worked so well on I-70. It's got more accidents and is closed more now than it EVER was when it was 2-lane. And, of course, you never saw Glenwood Canyon before the 4-lane raped it. I will absoutely gaurantee you that if a proposal is floated to 4-lane US 50 through the Arkansas Canyon and over Monarch Pass, I will use every lobbying skill that I have to try and kill it--and, yes, I do have experience (lots of it) doing that. More highway building is absolutely the LAST thing we need to waste money and resources upon.
There will always be people against progress but when the time comes the state decided to 4 lane highway 50 Pueblo will do all it can to make it a reality and Pueblo has a lot of pull in the state.....

Edit: Having highway 50 4 lanes through the state would actually help I-70 as some of the traffic would switch from I-70 to highway 50.

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Old 01-28-2009, 10:34 AM
 
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Jazzlover wrote:
More highway building is absolutely the LAST thing we need to waste money and resources upon.
Jazz, you and I have diametrically opposed viewpoints from time to time, on a variety of issues, but I'm in TOTAL agreement with you on this one!
 
Old 01-28-2009, 10:43 AM
 
Location: Pueblo - Colorado's Second City
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Jazzlover wrote:
More highway building is absolutely the LAST thing we need to waste money and resources upon.
Jazz, you and I have diametrically opposed viewpoints from time to time, on a variety of issues, but I'm in TOTAL agreement with you on this one!
Actually highway building is exactly what we need right now to help get this economy moving again. That is why President Obama has included that in his stimullious plan.


"We did not build the highways because we are a great country,
We are a great country because we built the highways"
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