I-70 Mountain Corridor Coalition

167525 Resource 78724 162078 162077 1177771867192 1204395720203 Controlled Interstate 70 Study Outlines Potential Impacts to Colorado and Summit County Economies

Cost of doing nothing is substantial to Colorado’s statewide and resort community revenues.

Sitting in traffic on I-70 has become an almost expected event, whether you are a Summit County local heading to Denver on a Sunday afternoon, or a front ranger trying to get to the slopes.  The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce released a report that estimates the cost to the state of Colorado of doing nothing on this clogged Interstate is about $839 million/year.  Flo Raitano, Director for the I-70 Mountain Corridor Coalition echoes the study’s findings stating that “If we don’t fix it, it’s going to be a significant economic detriment.”  To learn more about the I-70 Mountain Corridor Coalition, click <a href="http://www.i-70coalition.org/" target="_blank">here</a>.  To read the entire Summit Daily News article on “The Cost of doing nothing”, click <a href="http://summitdaily.com/article/20070425/NEWS/70425010&SearchID=73279431519293" target="_blank">here</a>.Submitted by Margaret Bowes 9 application/xml false Colorado Denver Metro Chamber economy I-70 Coalition Interstate 70 mountain corridor resort community revenue Summit County Summit Daily News I-70 Mountain Corridor Coalition The fighting force getting the traffic issues clear http://www.I-70coalition.org Summit Daily News 4-27-07 Cost of Doing Nothing A newspaper article explaining the ills of waiting to solve this issue http://summitdaily.com/article/20070425/NEWS/70425010&SearchID=73279431519293 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jbrewer 66.198.200.154 false true false false true 205866 false false true false false false true 78724 blog blogsite/SnowHome/web