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11/19/2003: "No Monorail: A Wider I-70 Instead?"
State, feds seek wider I-70
Clear Creek officials unhappy at plan to cut mountain traffic woes
By Jeffrey Leib
Denver Post Staff Writer
Widening Interstate 70 in the pivotal "chokepoint" between Floyd Hill and the Eisenhower Tunnel is the most cost-effective way to reduce congestion in the mountain corridor, transportation officials say.
Yet public officials and residents of Clear Creek County, where the widening of I-70 would occur, say more lanes of traffic will increase pollution and gobble large chunks out of some Clear Creek cities.
