3speedslow

For the last few months, I have been dodging work crews and orange cones while DOT tries to finish a nasty section.

Well, it looks like they might make it just in time for winter. I am so relieved. Today it actualy looked like it was a regular stretch of highway. Plus side is the smooth road, new paint and wide paved shoulders. Bad news is I now have to cross lanes to get to my turning lane. Oh well, it's so early, not much traffic to worry about.

Anybody else been mentally willing the road crews to finish their work on your commute?

themeltingclock

Yeah. They ripped up a major E-W bike route into Downtown that I take with literally -no- warning and left it open like that for two weeks with the rough unpaved base. Good thing I run a cross bike with 32c tires or I would have been seriously irritated. It was a rough ride, but doable. They just finished it and re-striped the bike lanes.

Word on the street is that Denver is getting a bunch of new bike lanes/routes to help connect our discombobulated network next year. Yay.

009jim

We had about 3 months where they were widening the bike path and a scaffold was erected about 1000 yards long over the river. It was actually fun riding along in this tunnel arrangement, single file.