Monday, July 25, 2011

Save the Leyden Road

If you only ride in Jeffco, you may have no idea how much better the roads are in Boulder county.  We have redneck death traps like Golden Gate Canyon and Coal Creek Canyon.  Boulder has Left Hand, Sunshine, Sugarloaf, Flagstaff.  QED.  East of the mountains North of Boulder there are roads like Nelson, Hygiene, Nebo, St. Vrain (all east-west), and all the connecting north-south roads.  Fantastic scenary and modest traffic.  What do we have in Northern Jefferson County?  the Leyden Road.  That's pretty much it.  The creeping Kudzu of  Arvada is bent on covering every blade of grass with concrete and filling every open vista with office parks and Taco Bells.  Evidently Arvada has not been sated by the Candelas eco-cide.   The signs shown are new.  They were recently planted on the Leyden road and suggest that Arvada has turned its rapacious attention to this last lovely vista.  if you blow this up, you'll see the details of the "planning" commission meeting.  Here is a link to the full-sized picture