Saturday, April 1, 2017

New Boulevard Map































Here is my attempt at a map of the new 6-lane boulevards.  Yellow is east-west and green is north-south.  It doesn't show 64th Ave, Tower, Imboden, or Quail Run.

This doesn't look as impressive as the text description.  Things that stand out:
1) the Quincy & Watkins form the south and east side of a giant square, with E-470 and I-70 forming the other 2 sides.
2) Gun Club will be improved up to Mississippi.  Picadilly will be improved down to the 6th Avenue extension.  But there is a missing piece of SH-30 between Picadilly and Gun Club that will need to be 6 lanes as well which isn't listed.  Maybe I just missed it.  Gun Club-Picadilly will be the free alternative to E-470.  But it will be very expensive to build because of the expense of: 1) the missing link between Mississippi and 6th, which crosses E-470; 2) the complicated interchange of Colfax-I-70 and Picadilly; 3) another bridge over E-470; 4) another bridge over Pena Blvd.
3) The major north-south corridor will be Harvest.  This is also almost exactly aligned with one of the north-south runways at DIA.  It will run right through the middle of Aurora Highlands.  It is very interesting that we are planning a major 6-lane boulevard, a freeway, really, where today there is nothing, not even a two-lane dirt road (except for two short stretches).
4)  There aren't any major east-west roads south of I-70 past Harvest except for Quincy.  As a corollary, the area south of I-70 seems kind of boring, with just lots of giant subdivisions planned, but not much else.
5) There will be 3 major east-west roads north of I-70: 48th, 56th and 64th (not shown).  Which one of these will be the main one?  Definitely 56th avenue.  It is the southern border of the arsenal, and it goes east all the way to Front Range Airport.  From Quebec to Imboden is about 17 miles.  So I'm calling it - 56th Avenue is the new Colfax, the new east-west drag.  I should do another post about that.  At Front Range, the traffic will go onto 48th to drive around it, and then continue all the way to Kiowa-Bennett Rd.  (From Imboden to Kiowa-Bennett is another 9 miles).

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