I-70

Expanding I-70 requires digging up contaminated soil from a Superfund site in the country's most polluted ZIP code. But Hickenlooper stuck to his claims that adding more car lanes will be good for our air quality and our health.

A federal judge yesterday ruled against plaintiffs seeking to halt the Colorado Department of Transportation's project to widen I-70 through mostly low-income, Latino neighborhoods in north Denver.

Some findings in the decision could help a federal lawsuit against the 1950s-era widening through north Denver neighborhoods.

Dentro de los tribunales, entidades opuestas a la carretera presentaron un memorándum gubernamental que indica que CDOT estaba consciente del hecho que un proyecto de drenaje sería necesario para proteger a la carretera a desnivel de inundaciones, sin embargo, no quiso incluir ese trabajo en su análisis ambiental.

The Colorado Department of Transportation should not be allowed to widen I-70 before the courts have ruled on the project, say advocates fighting the highway expansion, and they have a new piece of evidence to bolster their legal case.

Reps from CDOT and the city were invited to the forum but did not attend.

The safe and easily navigable streets of Denmark's largest metro area are not some magical accident in a far away land. They're the result of pragmatic decision-making.

To have the Post tell it, widening an interstate through city neighborhoods is actually a community connector, a jobs program, an affordable housing solution, an investment in our children, and a boon for outdoor recreation. That must be why so many cities are solving their problems these days by spending billions of dollars on traffic-generating, sprawl-inducing highway expansion projects.

The Sierra Club, Elyria and Swansea Neighborhood Association, Chaffee Park Neighborhood Association, and the Colorado Latino Forum claim that pollution from the traffic-inducing project will violate the Clean Air Act.