Colorado Tries To Get Skiers Out Of Cars And Onto Buses To Tamp Down Traffic

Interstate 70 west of Denver is backed up with ski traffic on Jan. 18. Coloradans make this powder pilgrimage every weekend, and traffic has gotten worse.

More than a half-dozen world-class ski resorts are less than 100 miles west of Denver. The trouble is that they're also some of the most popular — and there's really only one road to get to them: the dreaded Interstate 70.

"In the beginning, I could leave at 6:30 [a.m.] or 7 [a.m.] and get here in one hour," said Midhun Mohan, who has skied at Loveland Ski Area for the last eight years.

"But now, I probably have to leave at 5:30 [a.m.] on a day like this," he said on a recent Saturday morning.

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