Quick Denver Trippin'
I had a few hours to kill one day before heading to a friend's house for dinner, so I decided to check out the now-complete TREX Project in Denver. Of course, I had to take my camera along.
The Sun! It burnses us!
Heading south down I-25 now. I'm fighting the sun big time, but there's still some pics I want to show you.
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At the Colorado Boulevard interchange.
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Still some median work happening around here.
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The Evans Avenue exit.
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The Evans offramp. Note the switch to asphalt partway up. That's a bridge...
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... over the light rail lines, which are rejoining the interstate ROW after taking a side trip.
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Directly under Evans Avenue. I like how the light rail lines are hidden under the bridgework.
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Distance sign standing guard while exiting the trench after Evans.
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The light rail lines are so close to the edge of the interstate here that street-level signs had to go up on poles and hang over the shoulder.
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Approaching Yale Avenue.
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The Yale Station in all its glory.
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Distance shot from the Yale Avenue bridge.
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The Hampden exit starts as a two lane offramp but quickly expands.
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The Hampden Avenue station is right against the interstate.
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Another high sign sighting.
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Coming up on the 225/25 interchange.
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Let's head north on 225 for a bit: TREX modified a bit of this interstate, too.
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Coming down the flyover from SB 25 to NB 225.
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Interesting that crews left the original sign gantry and signs when everything else around it changed.
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We're now joining the offramp to NB 25. I guess this means this is where NB 225 officially BEGIN!s.
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If I remember correctly, there used to be an exit right here. It was combined in the construction. If I don't remember correctly, I wonder what I was on then and if I could get more.
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Ack! That's a bubble shield!
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Nice urban diamond configuration here.
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I like how the light rail lines straddle the bridge supports.
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The first station on the 225 spur of the light rail lines.
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Interesting cement configuration due to a bridge and a dip in the land.
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The end of the light rail tracks.
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Closer look at the end of the line.
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Now looking at the end of the tracks from the southbound lanes. This is also where 225 gains lane 3.
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A shot of the Parker station. There's a freakin' huge parking garage to the right of this pic.
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More height differences due to bridgework.
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I'd hate to see what will happen when 225 needs to be widened again.
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Southbound 225 after Parker Road.
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225 dips into the Cherry Creek Basin (that's it's dam on the left) leading to a great distance shot.
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Electrical station?
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Crews left this sign in its original installation point on the bridge.
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Pedestrian bridge over the southbound lanes. This station will be little-used until there's some more development in this area.
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Southbound 225 loses it's third lane before hitting 25. I thought the third lane was supposed to go to the 25 interchange. Interesting.
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The light rail lines start to climb away from 225.
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Another power substation that's staffed, apparaently.
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Coming up on the ramps to 25. I like how the power pole for the light rail got a place on the extension of the bridge support.
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Another case of old sign bridge and sign being surrounded by newness.
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The split of the road to NB or SB 25. The END! of 225.
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2 line VMS to alert to conditions in the tunnel ahead.
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That's the smallest state highway shield I've ever seen on a LGS.
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Flyover ramps everywhere!
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