Jayson Luber is a Denver7 Traffic Anchor, Reporter, and Forecaster.
It's been 70 years since Denver7 first hit the airways. All month long, we're showing you the changes to our station and our state. As Colorado grew, so did our highways. Denver7 Traffic Expert Jayson Luber takes us on a road trip — from the Mouse Trap to Floyd Hill .The intersection of Denver’s two major interstates: Interstate 25 and Interstate 70 is known to most long-time Coloradans "the mouse trap .
The final bridge was dedicated in 2003 in the middle of one of the largest and most expensive public works projects in Colorado history—"TREX."The Union Avenue bridge over I-25 on the north side of the Denver Tech Center was one of the most important and dramatic changes to I-25. This is one of 18 bridges that were either replaced or rehabilitated as part of the TREX project.
We are now driving south of Castle Rock in an area nicknamed"the gap." It got the moniker because until last year, it was still just two lanes between here and Monument. It remained relatively unchanged since it was originally built about the same time that Denver7 signed on the air in the 1950s. The original design was an elevated bridge type highway that cut right through the neighborhoods. It wasn’t until the bridge was in such disrepair with concrete falling off and rebar showing, that instead of replacing it, the idea was to lower the interstate and connect the roads at ground level to allow the community to come together again.
The last time I was there was to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Eisenhower bore. Get this— since these tunnels have been opened, there have been more than 435 million vehicles that have used these tunnels.The other I-70 mountain engineering marvel is west of here through Glenwood Canyon. It is not hyperbole to say that project during the 1980s was a marvel because of the way the interstate is stacked, double decker style in places.
This current $700 million project will reshape the look of this major corridor that connects the mountains to metro Denver. The project encompasses an 8 mile section of I-70 that is in desperate need of a upgrade. Not to mention, the hill on the south side of I-70 was slowly sliding down.
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