{"id":2444729,"date":"2019-05-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/cdot-wants-to-open-independence-pass-by-friday-evening\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:10:17","slug":"cdot-wants-to-open-independence-pass-by-friday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/cdot-wants-to-open-independence-pass-by-friday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"CDOT wants to open Independence Pass by Friday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Colorado Department of Transportation crew works May 16 to clear a path to the summit of Independence Pass from the Pitkin County side.<\/strong>
Jason Auslander \/ The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

State transportation crews are shooting to open Independence Pass by Friday evening, an official said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The road \u2014 which normally opens the Thursday before Memorial Day<\/a> \u2014 should be open by 5:30 p.m. Friday, said Tracy Trulove, Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to give them the whole day (Friday) to get it done,\u201d Trulove said.<\/p>\n

CDOT will post updates to social media (@ColoradoDOT<\/a>) and at COtrip.org<\/a> by mid-day Friday on the progress and whether the road will open for sure, she said.<\/p>\n

Crews are making solid headway repairing a 100-foot section of guardrail on the Pitkin County side and have cleared the parking lot at the top and paths to the bathrooms, she said.<\/p>\n

Contrary to previous updates, CDOT crews on the Twin Lakes side only reached the summit late Tuesday for the first time, Trulove said. Crews on the Pitkin County side reached the 12,095-foot summit May 17<\/a>, she said.<\/p>\n

The massive amount of snow this winter coupled with avalanches have delayed the Pass\u2019 opening. Slide paths on the Twin Lakes side just above the winter closure gate are much larger than those on the Pitkin County side, Trulove said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s mind-blowing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Trucks longer than 35-feet never are allowed on Independence Pass. Drivers who violate that law can be fined as much as $1,500.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Colorado Department of Transportation crew works May 16 to clear a path to the summit of Independence Pass from the Pitkin County side.Jason Auslander \/ The Aspen Times State transportation crews are shooting to open Independence Pass by Friday evening, an official said Wednesday. The road \u2014 which normally opens the Thursday before Memorial […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 22:12:15","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444759,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444729\/revisions\/2444759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}