{"id":802402,"date":"2019-12-17T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376118"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:10:00","slug":"i-70-loveland-pass-to-close-for-rockfall-blasting-wednesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/i-70-loveland-pass-to-close-for-rockfall-blasting-wednesday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"I-70, Loveland Pass to close for rockfall blasting Wednesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO \u2014 On Wednesday morning, the Colorado Department of Transportation will be conducting rockfall blasting on Interstate 70, which is expected to close areas of the highway until midday.<\/p>\n<p>The department is set to begin blasting near Idaho Springs at 9 a.m., which will close traffic in both directions between Downieville and Floyd Hill \u2014 from about Exit 234 to Exit 248. There will be an additional eastbound I-70 traffic stop at Exit 205 at Silverthorne beginning at 8:15 a.m. Roads are expected to reopen by noon, and CDOT is urging motorists to avoid travel during those times.<\/p>\n<div class=\"p402_hide\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/pasted-image-0-1024x576.png\" alt class=\"wp-image-376119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/pasted-image-0-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/pasted-image-0-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/pasted-image-0-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/pasted-image-0-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/pasted-image-0.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption>Courtesy Colorado Department of Transportation<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In addition to the I-70 closures, Loveland Pass will be closed at Arapahoe Basin beginning at 8:15 a.m. but is expected to reopen quickly following the blasting.<\/p>\n<p>According to CDOT, the blasting along I-70 needs to be done before the department can install new rock mesh to improve public safety in the area, where two rockslides occurred late last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/i-70-loveland-pass-to-close-for-rockfall-blasting-wednesday-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO \u2014 On Wednesday morning, the Colorado Department of Transportation will be conducting rockfall blasting on Interstate 70, which is expected to close areas of the highway until midday. The department is set to begin blasting near Idaho Springs at 9 a.m., which will close traffic in both directions between Downieville and Floyd Hill \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 07:25:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}