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  1. I don’t hate it, with one modifications- they would need to reopen 9th street where it goes under the Federal building east of Trinity.
    Otherwise, Congress ave between 7th and 11th street isn’t really part of any vital through-traffic pattern and there aren’t any businesses on that stretch that depend on fronting to motor vehicle access. Quite the opposite. Storefront businesses would benefit.
    The East-West throughput on 5-6-7th and 11th is what’s vital.

    Opening 9th would certainly help but won’t happen. They could lots of things to alleviate it but they want.

    There also aren’t really any storefront businesses down here: 7/11, Chipotle, Quattro, the bakery, the former quiznos. And with most of it being commercial office space, it’s not like there’s a lot of places for a storefront to go: old lavazza and old little city space come to mind, That part seems like a lot of wish casting.
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  2. There’s a reason visitor attraction takes a hit: it’s practically all office buildings up here. Unless that’s changing, this isn’t going to help that much. It’s just going to be a pain in the ass for everyone that works at this end, unless you do things to make it workable, like turning Colorado back into a one-way street and fixing the fuckery that is the intersection at 10th and Colorado. Which they probably won’t do or are even considering (like not putting in a turn lane at 7th and Congress after installing the bike lanes).

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  3. Do you have a better proposal?

    Yeah, don’t do it.

    But if you want to do this, first make sure there’s more parking available (since they’re taking out street parking), turn Colorado back into a one way street, improve public transportation, make sure the other north and south streets downtown can handle the traffic that will move from Congress when you do.

    Let me know when all that happens.
  4. “If you ever relax in this game, this game will find a way to humble you instantly,” Elko said in his postgame press conference. “That is across the board. You can look at college, NFL, good teams, bad … across the board. If you ever think you’ve got this game, you don’t.

    “That’s human nature sometimes. You go on the road. You have a big road win. You think you want to relax because that’s human nature. You can’t do that. You do that you put yourself at risk.”


    Did anyone ask Elko why he took that delay of game right before they got the punt blocked?
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