My biggest use of waze is in reducing my commute from 2 hours to 45 minutes a lost every night coming home from work.
Never understand why traffic in the DTC is so slow. There's never a reason, just a bunch of idiots going 5mph or less.
Too many cars. And you're here now adding to it. Hahaha.
You weren't even here before T-REX. That section of highway gained three lanes in that area during that project in each direction.
I drove the entire length of I-25 before, during, and slightly after that multi-year project was finished, daily. Today's DTC jams are nothing at all, compared to that.
Easiest way to avoid it is to get flexible hours. A couple hours before or after the 5-6PM crunch means the difference between what you're seeing and setting the cruise control in the second lane.
When C-470 opened, it was a ghost highway to nowhere. There was a big gap of nothing between Lakewood's west edge and Morrison. It's completely full of housing, now.
The two farmhouses you see at C-470 and Bowles were out there by themselves and were about a half hour from civilization. We had friends who lived in one of them. He's a pastor at some mega-church in California these days.
Karen's family lived out past that to the west in one of two subdivisions ack there in the foothills further west. They were kinda in the middle of nowhere back there. Neighborhood is still there and fairly ritzy.
Her folks built their house custom as their big "hoorah" and found that the kids were moving out pretty quickly and they'd be maintaining a really big place for the two of them.
Interesting thing about that house was all of her family are very tall except her. They had everything in the house built taller. Countertops, toilets, everything. They ended up selling it to another tall couple who had one of the two people fighting a disability, who needed to find a structure built well enough to install a real elevator. The place met the architectural needs, and they moved to AZ to retire.
Anyway... DTC is actually better than it's ever been. If you want some real fun, look up the history of the "Valley Highway". It was originally only two lanes all the way through the city. My grandfather watched it being paved from his porch in Federal Heights.
That it's now 12 lanes wide plus weave lanes at some points is more a testament to poor city planning than anything. There aren't any other significant north-south highways in a metro holding many millions more people now.
At least I-25 could be widened. The I-70 ski corridor is a massive traffic disaster.
If you've driven the Boulder Turnpike/US-36, imagine if you will, that all civilization stopped at JeffCo... Cough... Rocky Mountain Metro(sexual) Airport and Wadsworth until you got to Baseline in Boulder.
The only thing out there was StorageTek and Rocky Flats. Nothing there at all. The building of the Sun (now Oracle) campus was huge news and started the fill-in along there.
KEIK was a pretty good hike from civilization when I finished up my a certificate there, after starting at the now-gone Aurora Airpark south of KFTG right at I-70 and the Watkins exit.
It hasn't been so much urban sprawl as an urban explosion over the last two decades.
My industrial building workplace now sits about 2500' from the north end of the former Stapleton runway 35R, dead center of the runway.
I haven't used it for a while since no other users travel on my route to work (back roads) and I know where I'm going. Calculating the route at home before you leave on WiFi seems to reduce how much it uses greatly, if that's an option for you.
