Taken from a guest editorial The Boulder Planet of 26 May 1999
- Denver-Boulder opened as toll road in 1952. 2 lanes each way.
- Built as limited access road with only three access points
- Wildly successful. Bonds paid off in half planned time.
- Developers realized that adding interchanges would allow more access
- The road could serve more communities
- Those communities could then grow because of better access
- The communities DID grow - and poured traffic onto the road
- The road is a very congested 4 lanes
- Traffic is well above capacity
- Eric Sevareid's Law: "The chief cause of problems is solutions"