Mile High Shift: Central I-70 reopens Monday as traffic shifts to new lanes
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and last updated 2021-05-23 20:27:37-04
DENVER â The weekend long closure of Interstate 70 in Denver will make way for the Mile High Shift come Monday morning.
Both directions of travel on I-70 through parts of the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood in north Denver will be shifted onto the completed westbound lanes of the lowered section. The shift begins at 5 a.m. Monday.
But in the meantime, the interstate is closed from Washington Street to I-270. Eastbound traffic is being diverted to I-25 north to I-76 east and then onto I-270 south. Westbound traffic is being diverted onto I-270 north to I-76 west and then onto I-25 south.
Denver’s “Electronic Noses” to Purify Foul-Smelling Air Residents complain about every two days of bad odors, so the city is now requiring 330 industrial facilities to submit odor control plans as well as installing e-nose sensors to detect and mitigate the stenches. Bruce Finley, The Denver Post | April 13, 2021 | News
(TNS) Odor-detecting electronic noses deployed this past month mark Denver s latest push to purge its olfactory environment as foul fumes again waft into neighborhoods, intensifying with spring as the weather warms.
Irked residents complain to the city about every two days, records show, and municipal inspectors focus on familiar industrial emitters, including a 91-year-old pet food factory, marijuana producers, asphalt factories, an oil refinery, and processors of grocery and slaughterhouse waste.
Mercedes Jara and other volunteers fill food baskets for neighbors at the Wonderbound Campus on E 40th Avenue Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, in the Globeville neighborhood of Denver. Volunteers deliver the food to residents in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea areas every Friday. We Don’t Waste and other non-profit organizations served more than 500 cars during a drive-thru food bank the same day. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
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Christian Murdock, The Gazette
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We have heard about “racist” statues. The charge of “racist,” used to any degree real or perceived, has become a powerful weapon among those pushing swift and widespread cultural and political revolution.
The next big thing in their crusade will be “racist” highways that must be destroyed like statues of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. Racial justice activists hope Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for transportation secretary, will lead the charge. His tweet about highways emboldens them.
“Black and brown neighborhoods have been disproportionately divided by highway projects or left isolated by the lack of adequate transit and transportation resources. In the Biden-Harris administration, we will make righting these wrongs an imperative,” Buttigieg tweeted on Dec. 20.