When the state of Colorado built Interstate 70 through northwest Denver in the 1960s, it added a nice touch for the neighbors: miles of tall wood fencing to soften the sound of all that new traffic.
That same wood fence — nearly eight miles of it, counting both sides of the freeway— was still standing more than a half-century later. Well, kind of standing.
“It did its best for the life of the fence, right?” joked Jessica Myklebust, regional transportation director for the Colorado Department of Transportation…