We started off with a few ticky-tack crashes this morning and then came a doosey. The crash wasn’t all that bad but it was in a bad spot. SB I-25 before Speer in the left lane. It was there for 15 minutes then moved to the right shoulder out of traffic. That was not the end of the jam though. It stayed slower than normal from 6:30 to 8:30. At least the Cherry Creek Dam Road was open to traffic today.

Fairly quiet morning with the exception of the Cherry Creek Dam Road closed again. They are doing maintenance work on the bridge between the road and the water tower. One more scheduled closure is set for this summer, the first weekend in August.

The biggest surprise for us this morning was the closure of the Cherry Creek Dam road. It will be closed for the weekend so they can do some maintenance on the road. Otherwise we had a couple of crashes here and there, nothing too bad. Traffic was a little lighter than normal, a good thing for the end of the work week.

The morning was full of rollover crashes. We had one on University at I-25 that closed lanes there for an hour. We had the big one on NB I-225 after Iliff that ended up in the median of the interstate. Traffic was backed up in both directions all morning long, even after the accident was cleared. Once again we had slow traffic well into the 9 o’clock hour. Maybe folks are waking up late and going to work late this summer.

Again like yesterday the drive started out quiet then roared to life just before 7 a.m. The freeways got packed and we had a few off freeway crashes around town. The worst highway accident involved a motorcyclist on SB I-25 at Alameda. The 2 center lanes were clocked for more than a half an hour and traffic was more stop then go from before I-70. The rider was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries after the crash.

The 128th Ave bridge over I-25 reopened to traffic today after 8 months of construction today. Once again it will be available to avoid the heavier traffic on 120th or 136th.