Proposed I-270 widening shows CDOT hasn’t learned from its mistakes

Southbound traffic on Interstate 25 in Denver is seen on Oct. 5, 2020. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)

Here we go again. Years after the prolonged fight over the Colorado Department of Transportation’s widening of Interstate 70, CDOT is now proposing to widen Interstate 270.

Coloradans learned painfully from I-70: projects that expand highways in historically burdened neighborhoods don’t heal communities, they compound harm. But, apparently, CDOT did not learn from its past mistakes…

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