Higher speed limit diverts Laramie traffic from 287

CHEYENNE – Higher speed limits on interstate highways in Colorado and Wyoming may be helping divert truckers from driving through Old Town Fort Collins to take the U.S. Highway 287 cutoff north to Laramie, according to Ron Phillips, transportation services director for the City of Fort Collins.But four or five years of construction on Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Laramie and on Interstate 25 between Wellington and the Wyoming-Colorado state line won’t help, Phillips said.
Phillips was in Cheyenne recently to meet with the Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee to discuss long-term transportation planning, including the so-called “triangle…