This article struck me as over the last two years I have noticed CDOT closing roads on a whim. Last year during two diffrent wind storms they closed highway 287 from lamar to spring field because there are two miles of fields blowing dust outside of lamar. That is 45 miles of highway. A few week ago, they closed the highway from lamar to las Animas when there was an 800 acre fire on the other side of Las Animas and the river from the highway. Again 32 miles of highway closed people routed over an hour around it. They had snow plow parked backwards in the middle of the road blocking it. And the fire burned about 2 square miles of river bottom about 5 or 10 miles from the highway.
Colorado passed a law in 2020 cdot can close the highway when ever they want for "public safety."
Now they're running drivers off the road with snow plows for ignoring their frivolous closures. I have seen bad dust storms and river bottom fires all my life. Prior to the last two years I have seen the highway closed twice during severe blizzards where more than 3ft of snow fell in a day.
