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The Labor Day weekend begins Friday, and domestic travel bookings are 9% higher this year compared to 2023, according to AAA .For many Coloradans, that means spending time in the mountains to celebrate the holiday. One of the main thoroughfares that visitors and natives alike use to get to their destination is westbound Interstate 70 through the Eisenhower Tunnel. Driving through the tunnel, drivers pass not one but two runaway truck ramps.
. 'When you go down that hill, it's pretty steep. It's deceivingly steep,' Tamara Rollison, the ramps, is meant for any vehicle that loses its brakes while traveling at high speeds on this terrain, maintenance crews to clear the ramp for future use. 'They have to clear the gravel bed so that it's in good, safe working order for the next truck to use, so they'll go in there and make sure that it's safe and everything's cleared. They're not charged for that type of thing. The expense they would have is getting a third-party tow truck to get their rig out of the emergency truck runaway ramp,' Rollison said.
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