The Eisenhower Tunnel turns 50 on Wednesday. Here are some fun facts you may not have known about this historic tunnel:
DENVER — You drive through it many weekends out of the year, but how many times have you stopped to think where the name for the tunnel you drive through to get through I-70 to the mountains comes from? Or what systems are in place to stop fires if they occur inside? Here are some fun facts about the Eisenhower Tunnel.The Eisenhower-Edwin C.
President Eisenhower also had a closer connection to Colorado and those experiences played a part in building the IHS, so say officials with the Colorado Department of Transportation . In 1972, just a year shy of the tunnel’s inauguration, the Colorado State Legislature officially designated it the Eisenhower Memorial Bore.While the westbound lanes of the tunnel had been completed in 1973, it took about another two years for work on the eastbound lanes which connected the mountains to Denver to begin.
READ MORE: 'We’re like our own little city up here’: Inside the hidden control room atop the Eisenhower Tunnel The Fixed Fire Suppression System helps eliminate closures or long-term damage to the tunnel, “which could cost Colorado billions of dollars and impact tourism along the I-70 mountain corridor,” according to CDOT.It wouldn’t be Colorado without an outlaw story, now would it? And what better story than the one of Marion Woolridge.
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