Health: New European study solidifies link between highway pollution and chronic childhood asthma

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Bob Berwyn
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Roadside air pollution is a significant factor in chronic childhood asthma.

Toxic emissions from traffic are a significant public health concern, often ignored by transportation and urban planners

By Summit Voice

SUMMIT COUNTY — Pollution from busy roads may cause just as many cases of chronic childhood asthma as passive smoking, according to new findings published this week in the European Respiratory Journal.

The research conducted in 10 European cities concludes that 14 percent of childhood asthma cased are linked with traffic related pollution, while the World Health Organization estimates that between 4 percent and 18 percent of asthma cases in children are linked to passive smoking. (more…)

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Pedestrian killed along Highway 6 at Keystone

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Bob Berwyn

Jack-knifed truck shuts down I-70 Sunday evening

A dangerous intersection in Keystone was the scene of deadly accident early Sunday.

By Summit Voice

SUMMIT COUNTY — It was a bad weekend on the roads of Summit County. Early Sunday morning, the coroner’s office was called to the scene of an accident in Keystone, where apedestrian was killed on Highway 6, at a junction that resort residents have long identified as an accident waiting to happen.

The Summit County Coroner’s Office reported that 33-year-old Mircea Vasaram was hit by a Subaru Outback. The car was traveling westbound on Hwy 6 when it hit Vasaram on the northeast corner of the intersection.

He was transported by air to St. Anthony’s Hospital in Lakewood where he succumbed to his injuries.  An autopsy has been ordered and will be performed mid-week. He was visiting friends in Denver and they were up skiing for the day. The coroner’s office will not release information on the driver as the case is still being investigated by the Colorado State Patrol.

Sunday evening, eastboumd I-70 was closed for several hours after a truck jack-knifed near the Eisenhower Tunnel.

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Colorado: I-70 pace-car program gets another test

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Bob Berwyn

CDOT says ‘rolling speed harmonization’ helps reduce accidents that can result in serious traffic backups

I-70 has become a test area for a large-scale attempt to manage traffic congestion by pacing cars.

By Summit Voice

SUMMIT COUNTY — The Colorado Department of Transportation continues to fine-tune a pace car program on I-70 with the goal of smoothing the Denver-bound flow of traffic during the peak skier-return time on Sunday afternoon.

Under the program, formally called rolling speed harmonization, police vehicles lead columns of cars from just west of the Eisenhower Tunnel to the bottom of Floyd Hill, trying to maintain speeds between 35 and 55 mph. (more…)

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Summit County: Drunken pileup on Highway 6

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Bob Berwyn

This Summit County Sheriff's Office patrol car was hit by a drunk driver while the officer was helping with another DUI arrest on Highway 6 in Dillon.

Sheriff’s patrol car damaged in March 11 crash on Highway 6

By Summit Voice

SUMMIT COUNTY — A drunk driver plowed into a sheriff’s vehicle last Friday night while the deputy was assisting with another DUI arrest along Highway 6, near Cemetery Road. The car was severely damaged in the crash but the officer was not in the car and not injured.

The sheriff’s vehicle had responded as backup to another DUI arrest on Highway 6 and was parked off the side of the road with its emergency lights activated.  (more…)

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CDOT metering heavy eastbound traffic at tunnel

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Bob Berwyn

Go I-70 provides real-time updates on I-70 traffic conditions in Colorado. Click on the image for more information.

Delays up to an hour reported Sunday afternoon

By Summit Voice

SUMMIT COUNTY — Front Rangers seeking weekend relief from record-breaking temps in Denver streamed back to the metro area en masse Sunday afternoon, leading to some traffic issues on I-70.

The Colorado Department of Transportation began metering eastbound traffic about mid-afternoon, stopping eastbound traffic for 20 minutes at a time to prevent traffic from backing up inside the tunnel, for safety reasons.

At 3:30 p.m. Go I-70 was reporting about an hour delay for travelers headed east. An hour later, the delay was down to about 50 minutes.

Click on Go I-70 here to get the most up-to-date traffic conditions. The website also has a mobile application to connect with  social media messaging networks, so you can get updates via Twitter.

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I-70 snarled Sunday evening by wrecks, weather

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Bob Berwyn

Drivers going too fast for slick conditions Sunday caused several multi-car wrecks on I-70.

SUMMIT COUNTY — Officer’s Gulch was a trouble spot on I-70 again Sunday evening, as a 10-car pile-up in the eastbound lanes, and five-car wreck on the westbound side of the highway snarled traffic for several hours.

The road re-opened at 6:40 p.m.

Road conditions between Frisco and Vail Pass were reported as icy and snowpacked.

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I-70 Coalition: ‘We can’t beam you up’

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Bob Berwyn

The GoI70 web site features links to highway cameras and a feed of real-time messages about travel conditions along the corridor.

Web-based ‘Guess the Mess’ game to draw attention to traffic demand management

By Bob Berwyn

SUMMIT COUNTY — The I-70 Coalition is taking its social media message to the next level with an interactive game called Guess the Mess.

The goal is to generate more awareness about peak travel times on the corridor, said Tad Kline, director of the coalition’s traffic demand management program.

“We can’t beam you up. But we can tell you that, if you go now, it’ll take you the same amount of time as if you stayed up in the mountains for an extra hour and had dinner,” Kline said.

The exact rules of the game are here on the coalition’s GoI70 web site, but the basic idea is simple: Guess the peak of Sunday’s east-bound traffic and win lift tickets to A-Basin or Copper, gift certificates to the Dillon Dam Brewery or other ski-related prizes. (more…)

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Weekend tunnel traffic near record levels

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Bob Berwyn

Traffic through the Eisenhower/Johnson Tunnel Sunday afternoon was near record levels, but thinned out later in the day.

Sunday’s hourly count at 2 p.m. the tenth-busiest on record

By Bob Berwyn

SUMMIT COUNTY — Sunday afternoon’s eastbound traffic on I-70 cracked the top-ten hourly record book — but just barely. Tunnel managers announced Monday that 3,070 vehicles passed through the eastbound portal between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

All the top ten hourly counts are within a few hundred vehicles of each other, with the highest-ever hourly count recorded (3,450) on Sept. 4, 1995.

For the month, a total of 1,052,44 cars made the trip westbound and eastbound, down about 16,700 from a year ago.

For the three-day period of Jan. 29 – Jan 31, 2010, 136,757 vehicles use the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels, making it the seventh-highest winter weekend count on record.

Travelers Sunday reported that it took up to three hours to make the trip from Silverthorne to Idaho Springs. Tunnel managers tried to prevent backups inside the tunnel by metering traffic on the eastbound approach. Signs on Highway 6 near Keystone indicated Sunday afternoon that travelers could expect 20 minute stoppages to let traffic on the east side clear.

Local elected officials have said they want to talk with CDOT officials about tunnel traffic management, as they expressed concerns about big delays on the eastbound approach. CDOT managers said they are using the same polices as they have for 15 years, but that they’ve become more pro-active about communicating the stoppages.

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