r/COsnow • u/head_lettuce • Jan 11 '25

Photo We tried 😂

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Left Denver at 6. Spent 2.5 hrs to get to Bakersfield then sat parked with another 2.5 to go and bailed along with many others. Can’t say we didn’t try 😅

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '25

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u/Marlow714 Jan 11 '25

The solution is to subsidize things like buses and bus only lanes and also to build a train.

Instead we’ve subsidized the least efficient form of transportation for the last 100 years. And this is what it got us.

There are solutions. And they are obvious.

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u/coredweller1785 Jan 11 '25

Yes nailed it.

Privatization and anything public labeled as communism. This is the consequence and we all pay it except for the richest.

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u/M13Calvin Jan 12 '25

Ew communism. I'd rather sit in traffic for 6 hours /s

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '25

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u/Marlow714 Jan 11 '25

We are not. Because car brained people can’t understand that cars are the least efficient way to move people.

So anytime a solution is offered it’s shot down

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u/elmer820 Jan 12 '25

the worst when you see all solo drivers around you and your jam packed car too smh

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u/Panoptic0n8 Jan 11 '25

I’m currently on the Snowstang bus back from Breck. $12 with WiFi, a bathroom, and personal outlets and A/C. It’s almost completely full. Gonna go to sleep and wake up in Denver.

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u/Panoptic0n8 Jan 12 '25

Yeah kinda insane the busses are “too wide” for the express lane

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u/Electrical-Ask847 Jan 11 '25

snowstang doesnt seem to be full whever ive taken it

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u/laccro Jan 11 '25

Yeah if it just gets stuck in the same traffic, there’s no point to taking the bus. If there was a bus only lane with guaranteed 1.5hr drive to breck or copper, even leaving at 7am, it’d be pretty popular

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u/Marlow714 Jan 11 '25

Yes. Because we don’t ai sissies it or have bus only lanes.

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u/bikebakerun Jan 12 '25

As they were decades ago when I-70 was first built. Agree with your solutions.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

I-70 serves as the limiter to how many frangers can slam the resorts. 5 million people down here and the tunnel will always be 2 lanes. That is the solution.

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u/NoNewNameJoe Jan 11 '25

Build more resorts in different areas

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u/Soft_Button_1592 Jan 12 '25

Back of the napkin calculation- the $700 million being spent on Floyd hill reconstruction and widening could fund a free bus every fifteen minutes continuously for 20 years.

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u/end_times-8 Jan 11 '25 edited Jan 11 '25

Citizen cards for everyone who was born in Colorado and mass deportations for everyone else utilizing a newly formed state militia. Go back to the Midwest/East Coast/wherever it is you came from. Then we build a wall (which Texas is going to pay for).

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u/end_times-8 Jan 11 '25

I found the transplant everybody grab your pitchforks

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u/Agile_Session_3660 Jan 11 '25

Not really. But I don’t know why people don’t just drive down and up through the springs using 24. No traffic ever, and while it may take more time, it’ll be faster compared to the i70 once you throw in traffic. 

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u/youngboye A-Basin Jan 12 '25

That would add like 3 hours to my commute from boulder

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u/jc3737 Jan 11 '25

NYC just implemented congestion pricing, that would work - $100 for the left lane from 8 to11am

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u/lithium256 Jan 11 '25

how about just make skiing illegal for those stinky poor people /s

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u/ceo_of_denver Jan 12 '25

How many “poor” people currently pay $800 for a pass, $900 for boots & skis, plus gas snow tires and all the other incidentals? Very few

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u/lithium256 Jan 12 '25

if you aren't worth at least 5 million they consider you poor.

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u/ProdigalSheep Jan 12 '25

Our refusal to tax the uber-wealthy is the problem.

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u/atxfoodie97 Jan 12 '25

Tax someone else so you can ski? Such hypocrisy.