{"id":51979,"date":"2015-07-28T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/toll-lanes-coming-soon-to-a-highway-near-me.html"},"modified":"2015-07-28T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T21:56:00","slug":"toll-lanes-coming-soon-to-a-highway-near-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/toll-lanes-coming-soon-to-a-highway-near-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Toll lanes, coming soon to a highway near &#8230; me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C-470 does indeed get pretty crowded in the evening (and morning) commute, something I&#39;ve been mercifully immune to, between time-shifting and light rail usage.  I&#39;d much rather see a broader regional tax to cover expansion of the freeway, rather than adding toll lanes, but such lanes have definitely been under discussion for quite some time down in this neck of the woods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/denver\/blog\/earth_to_power\/2015\/07\/c-470-to-see-toll-lanes-as-part-of-269-million.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/kkFJEMgLbEkKy1ivPDtdqYc9B3G6n1SL7k9cM35miTE1P9S3T-551NoWgCB3rCIRohnnrQJPtcsEcZsrdAtYfaefrDBv7EyMgrRUtwPaDrlL0zk=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/denver\/blog\/earth_to_power\/2015\/07\/c-470-to-see-toll-lanes-as-part-of-269-million.html'>C-470 highway to get toll lanes in $269 million expansion plan &#8211; Denver Business Journal<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTraffic jams along C-470, which skirts Denver&#8217;s southern suburbs, are routine &mdash; but relief is coming.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ZLs93GZEXqm'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-470 does indeed get pretty crowded in the evening (and morning) commute, something I&#39;ve been mercifully immune to, between time-shifting and light rail usage. I&#39;d much rather see a broader regional tax to cover expansion of the freeway, rather than adding toll lanes, but such lanes have definitely been under discussion for quite some time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/toll-lanes-coming-soon-to-a-highway-near-me.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toll lanes, coming soon to a highway near &#8230; me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32192,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/14\/toll-lane-ahead-for-c-470.html","url_meta":{"origin":51979,"position":0},"title":"Toll lane ahead for C-470","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Jan-13 6:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Living just north of the freeway, the impact of the rush hour on it and any parallel roads during that time is pretty significant, and directly affects us even if we avoid the freeway proper.I took the survey they described, and they really did come up with a variety of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131236,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/10\/breaking-ground-on-the-c470-tollway-expansion.html","url_meta":{"origin":51979,"position":1},"title":"Breaking ground on the C470 tollway expansion","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Aug-16 9:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that US 36 has finished its expansion\/tollway fun times, C470 is beginning its local expansion, adding 1-2 lanes along its southern stretch.It's hard to argue that expansion is necessary -- though my current commute doesn't include that stretch of highway, it used to, and even several years ago, things\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8921,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/23\/traffic_taking.html","url_meta":{"origin":51979,"position":2},"title":"Traffic taking its toll","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Mar-06 7:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie and I manage to miss most of the congestion on C470 down in our neck of the woods. 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