The Colorado Department of Transportation confirmed a record number of commuters — more than 1.3 million — traveled through Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel along Interstate 70 during July, a 7 percent increase (almost 87,000 more cars) over the same month total for 2015.
Three July weekends (thatap Friday, Saturday and Sunday) now claim the top-three counts ever through the mountain tunnel, each north of 150,000.July 29-31 is the new record-holder (153,503), with July 22-24 finishing a close second (153,214). And those two Sundays also are now No. 1 and No. 2 for the highest 24-hour traffic period in history, 54,061 and 53,909, respectively. August totals are typically available by the first week of September.
“Man, itap been packed in the towns,” said Thad Noll, assistant county manager. “You just feel there are more people here, whether itap Breckenridge or Frisco, Dillon — there’s more people. Itap backed up with ‘Yikes, those are big numbers.’”
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