Weld highway junction set up to attract commercial activity

It happens each morning and evening during rush hour on Weld County Road 74 at Colorado Highway 257.

Cars queue up at stop signs on the east-west county road – Harmony Road, as its known in Fort Collins – sometimes for 20 minutes in lines stretching a half mile, waiting to sneak across the higher-speed, free-flowing state highway.

During the past decade, as Weld County bedroom communities have mushroomed with new residents whose jobs are in Larimer County, the lines and the waits have gotten longer. The state transportation department’s most recent count showed 16,000 cars per day cross the…