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Denver educator Emily Griffith (1868–1947) shared her dream of opening a school to serve people of all ages and interests with a Denver Post features writer in 1915. Following its publication, she persuaded the Post and local trolley cars to promote the idea. In May 1916, Griffith received the condemned Longfellow School at 13th and Welton ...
In 1975 Colorado Governor Dick Lamm vowed to "drive a silver spike" through the plans for the road. [16] In 1989 voters turned down an expansion of the freeway by a four-to-one margin. In the late 1990s a citizens group called Citizens Involved in the Northwest Quadrant (CINQ) was formed to oppose the completion of the freeway.
The 6th Avenue Freeway in Denver, looking east from Knox Court. US 6 is concurrent with Interstate 70 (I-70) for a significant portion of its length from the Utah state line to Denver. When the highway enters the western Denver suburbs, US 6 coincidentally aligns with 6th Avenue in the grid system, where it is known as 6th Avenue Freeway.
Average travel time between Pueblo and Colorado Springs on this route was approximately 2.5 hours (or a full 8.5 hours from Pueblo to Denver). This route was upgraded with the help of the federal government to become US 85 and US 87 by 1930, now paved in concrete and shortening the travel time between Pueblo and Colorado Springs to just one hour.
SH 21 south (Powers Boulevard) – Colorado Springs Municipal Airport: Western end of SH 21 overlap: 312.137: 502.336: Airport Road east – Peterson Space Force Base: 312.512: 502.939 — Stewart Avenue: Interchange; eastbound entrance only: 313.505: 504.537: SH 21 north (Powers Boulevard) / Platte Avenue west – Downtown Colorado Springs
View along US 40 in Mount Vernon Canyon, Colorado, 1942. Photo by Andreas Feininger. Taking a circuitous route through Rabbit Ears Pass, Muddy Pass and Berthoud Pass (crossing the Continental Divide each time) it descends the escarpment along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. Just to the east of Empire, it merges with I-70 for the first ...
US 87 in Colorado Springs: SH 83 (now Academy Blvd) in Colorado Springs c. 1964: 2007 Decommissioned in October 2007 as part of a highway swap to get Powers Blvd. to become SH 21; signage was not removed until spring 2008. Now Circle Dr and Airport Rd. SH 30 — — — — c. 1938: 1953 SH 30 — — — —
Two additional Outrider services began roughly at the same time. The first was between Durango and Grand Junction, and the second was between Denver and Gunnison. [11] In December 2018, an additional route between Colorado Springs and the Denver Tech Center was started. [12] Total ridership from July 2017 to June 2018 reached 194,064. [13]