I'm moving to Denver Options

[Dogmeat]

i believe he said before lubbock was the biggest city he lived in
so i wouldnt think you were an appropriate estimation of "horrible" traffic, dogmeat

If you had ever tried to navigate denver up until about 2 years ago you would see what I am talking about.

Denver was fucking TERRIBLE, and it's not even a hell of a lot better now that I-25 is 8 lanes all the way through. It's better now, but it's not great....

Up until the T-rex project was completed it would take you an hour to drive at MOST 3/4 of a mile there if you were even anywhere NEAR rush hour, and it wasn't even a hell of a lot better than that during mid-day.

It's not just me that says this, there were countless news articles I'd read comparing Denver traffic to Dallas, Chicago, LA, whatever, and it was consistently ranked in the top 5 "worst traffic" cities in the US for nearly a decade if I remember right.

[cmac]

i got from thornton to downtown in about 10 minutes at 5pm rush hour traffic last week.
that's my only experience.

i decided wherever i live, i will take the rail to work. i was told that most of the employees in my office does.

This post has been edited by cmac: Jul 30 2007, 03:51 PM

[Hartmann]

If you're working downtown why not live north of town and take the public train?

Nevermind, I just read your last post...

[Mommy]

says the guy who's never lived there. don't listen to that shit.


dallas/houston traffic is much worse at any time of the day.

I have consistently heard that Denver has worse traffic than anywhere here. Ive been to Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, and Austin. Houston was bad... took me 45 minutes to get 2.3 miles, but I was coming out of the Gallaria area. In Austin it would take me an hour and a half to get from where 183 and I-35 intersect to the Riverside exit off I-35.... so basically and hour and half to get through downtown. I just hate DFW alltogether so sitting on the highway there is torture for me. San Antonio is actually really not that bad considering the amount of people that live there and all the fucking construction everywhere, but people drive slow so thats what backs it up a bit. El Paso is a breeze unless you are on the far east side. I've never been to Denver, but man have I heard the horror stories. I think I would take Texas traffic over it anyday. Texans always have this attitude that we have to be bigger and better at everything... even the shitty stuff. Man, we are masochistic.

[Hartmann]

Denver traffic is different.... Not necessarily worse.

I-25 from the north into downtown is a mess (near Westminster, etc.) simply because there is nowhere to expand the road, it is 3 lanes both ways (in some places 4) but there is no room to make it larger. So as people move farther and farther out (towards 470 in the north) the traffic will get worse.

I think Houston traffic is by far much worse. We create the traffic here, instead of the roads doing it. We have to merge to get in the faster lane, slowing everyone else down.

I never had a problem with Denver traffic. It moves, slowly but it's much easier than the stuff I put up with on a daily basis on 59. We just keep adding lanes

Dallas was also pretty bad but you have options to get around the traffic.