Continued network expansion was inevitable for this large-scale project. City planners reasonably began to worry there was only a matter of time before bottlenecks and outages-or worst-case scenario, a complete crash of the system-would cause detrimental effects.Īs Denver continued to experience rapid population growth, its traffic control network (TCN) currently consisting of more than 6,000 devices, legacy systems wouldn’t cut it. Denver’s network had already experienced dozens of failures with its existing technology, and with its main technician retiring, they had to act fast. However, sitting on I-25 in morning rush any day of the week in north Denver, sitting in a traffic jam on the 405 in LA at 1:00am, or driving in Austin, St Louis, Rome, Paris, Zurich, Auckland or any other major city makes any traffic complaints about our city pale by comparison.Sitting among the top 20 most populated cities in the United States, this has been no small feat for the City and County of Denver, which began its journey to modernization after its primary devices were discontinued by its long-standing vendor. I have definitely noticed an increase in the number of cars in our city and it is sometimes an inconvenience. From that perspective, having to wait through 2 cycles of a traffic light at larger intersections or having to pick a space and jump in when entering a thoroughfare from a side street feels like traffic is bad. As a long time resident, I can remember when Harmony Road had no traffic and no traffic signals, when Lemay was dirt south of Horsetooth, when one would only wait a moment before pulling out from the south-bound stop sign at Timberline onto east-bound Harmony, and when you would see very few cars on I-25 between FC and Denver on a week day. The view of traffic in our city is a matter pf perspective. People are commuting into and out of Fort Collins throughout Northern Colorado and southern Wyoming, making it easier to get across town is just common sense for a city the size of Fort Collins. It would help tremendously if the city built some kind of expressway on the north and south ends of town to get out to the interstate from across town with very limited lights and a couple of lanes each way. You have limited thoroughfares, and with so many side streets feeding into those streets there is basically a light every 1/4 mile in several areas on all the larger streets. The problem is deeper than the additional people living here, sure that adds to it, but the biggest issue is the entire setup of the city streets. I have never taken 30 minutes to get 7 miles on Denver city streets, and it has only happened a handful of times on any of the interstates. Think about that for a minute, that is an average of 14 mph and that was what we considered normal traffic. We planned on it when headed out of town for functions or work. I lived 7 miles from the nearest on ramp to I-25 when I lived in Fort Collins, it was normal to take 30 minutes to drive those 7 miles. I can travel all over Denver and never touch the pavement on an interstate, but can get to the interstate from pretty much anywhere in the metro area, and many large thoroughfares that can get me from one end of Denver to another very quickly compared to Fort Collins. The issue is that you are comparing a very busy thoroughfare to city streets. You don't even have to get on the interstate in FC 'all-street' driving is possible. The difference in roads, sense of scale, and huge presence of freeways in Denver, will be unmistakeable. Just look at both towns using Google Maps in aerial view. At least in FC, you can just get off on a side street and go your merry way. But go to Denver and sit on the interstates and you'll see a huge difference.
Maybe from the view and perspective of long-timers (i.e StealthRabbit). I really don't see/get this notion of traffic in FC.
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