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Loveland Pass, 1941. It is located on the Continental Divide in the Front Range, west of Denver on U.S. Highway 6 (US 6). The twisty road is considered to be especially treacherous during the winter months. A steep, steady 6.7% grade, along with numerous hairpin turns on either side, make it difficult to snowplow the road regularly.
Route 6 is a 211-mile-long (340 km) state highway in the northern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. It travels from I-29 Bus./US 169 in St. Joseph to US 24/US 61 about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Quincy, Illinois. Route 6, if only a few miles longer in each direction, would be the only state highway to cross Missouri west to east.
English: Section of OpenStreetMap showing Loveland Pass, Colorado, with Interstate 70, including the Eisenhower Tunnel, and US 6, as well as Loveland Ski Area and Arapahoe Basin resorts. Also illustrates some issues with Cartographic generalization
The video shows a car pass multiple stopped vehicles on an ice-covered road before sliding entirely off. More freezing rain was in the forecast Monday night for the Kansas City area.
The US 6 corridor crosses two passes: Loveland Pass, at an elevation of 11,992 feet (3,655 m), and Vail Pass, at 10,666 feet (3,251 m). [2] Engineers recommended tunneling under Loveland Pass to bypass the steep grades and hairpin curves required to navigate US 6. The project was originally called the Straight Creek Tunnel, after the waterway ...
Crews plan intermittent closures on northbound U.S. 169 from Fifth Street to Richards Road between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday, Brooke Rohlfing, a spokesperson for the Missouri Department of ...
Western portal to the tunnel in 2010. The traffic signal is controlled by a truck height sensor and control personnel. The idea for a tunnel under Loveland Pass existed since at least the 1950s. [10] William A.H. Loveland had an idea of a tunnel under the divide in 1867, but instead got the wagon road now known as Loveland Pass built.
Missouri also maintains a secondary set of roads, supplemental routes, which are lettered rather than numbered. Route 366 in St. Louis Missouri has also changed highway designations with a US route or an interstate with the same number is designated through the state (Route 40 was redesignated Route 14 to avoid duplicating numbers with US-40 ...