The biggest problem was in Wheat Ridge. CDOT was late in picking up the construction on west bound I-70 at Highway 58. There had been a full closures of the interstate this week during the overnight hours to work on the flyover ramp. The workers were looking at something leaking from the flyover and had to fix it before reopening the highway. The traffic jam grew back to Wadsworth and it was a long, slow delay for west side drivers. The highway finnaly reopened at 9:15 a.m.

They will try again to do that road work tonight. The highway will close both east and west bound starting at 9:30 going until 5:30 tomorrow morning. If they go late we’ll let you know.

On Friday I covered 2 bad crashes. One on I-25 near Longmont when a driver going south skidded across the median and crashed in the north bound lanes. The driver was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown out of the Jeep. The other crash was on south bound Wadsworth after C470. Again someone driving lost control and flipped over and once agian the 2 people inside were thrown out of the vehicle. Both, yea you guessed it, weren’t wearing their seatbelts. Now this is not a plea for people to buckle up but if you have ever seen one of these crashes or video from a rollover you would put it on everytime you drive. Even on short trips to the store. I wear it more because I don’t know what the other guy is going to do or for the time someone cruises through an intersection and crushes my car. My mother used to say she wouldn’t wear one because my dad refused to wear one and if he wasn’t going to survive a crash she didn’t want to either. That never made sense to me. Anyway, happy motoring.

It was a very quiet and ho-hum commute today. There were a few accidents here and there but the biggest problem was a vehicle fire on I-25 near Yale. The fire started at about 8:45 and burned the vehicle severely and put out a lot of smoke. 2 lanes of the interstate were closed while the fire department put it out.

I-70 will close down tonight, Wednesday and Thursday nights for brodge work at Highway 58. Both east and west will be shut down at 9:30 p.m. and should reopen by 5:30 the next morning. There are detours posted and the delay could be 5 to 10 minutes through the work zone.

It was a very uneventful drive today. Someone lost a load of windshields on EB Highway 285 at Sheridan. That debris added to the heavy traffic into Englewood. Otherwise the major problem was sun glare

Tonight and Tuesday night EB I-70 will be closed for more work on the Highway 58 interchange. Only EB will be closed the next 2 days from 9:30 to 5:30 the next morning. A detour around the closure is posted.

It was a fairly uneventful day in trafficland today. We had a few crashes that slowed things down, the worst was on north bound Santa Fe at Church involving a motorcycle.

Now that the increased speeds are posted on I-25 between Belleview and Broadway watch for increased police enforcement. They not only have marked cars but they have 2 unmarked cars that I’ve seen patrolling the area. They drive along with traffic like everyone else and wait for a speeder to zip by, then boom they are caught. The other way they get you is parked up against the lest side crash wall and wait for speeders to whiz by, then once again boom they get caught.

Have a great weekend and happy motoring.