Decades ago, CDOT purchased all the access rights necessary to move U.S. 160 north of each town, creating a bypass. Complaining among yourselves serves no purpose other than to raise your blood pressure. There are things you should accept and move on, even if you don t understand or think they are right. You are neither. CDOT is not going to give up the expressway designation, which refers only to access and not speed limit.
Drawings are conceptual.
Reality may be different. There may be a difference between what you agree to and the engineering interpretation of how it will be implemented. Chris Wilbur, of Wilbur Engineering, followed Short. Wilbur s firm participated in the traffic study completed for the town early in 2000 by Felsburg, Holt and Ullevig. He pointed at the latest proposal by CDOT s consultants, posted on the wall of the meeting room, and said it was, in essence, the 50-mph option.