Mass transit, more officers ease early traffic problems

BROOMFIELD – Developers of the Broomfield Event Center are working hard to make their entire project more traffic and bus friendly.

As a concert and sports venue that holds evening events, some worry that the center’s traffic will conflict with normal rush-hour commuters and further clog roads. On the Nov. 9 opening night concert with Bonnie Raitt, traffic did back up along U.S. 36, garnering complaints from both concertgoers and other drivers.

“It didn’t go as perfectly as we would have liked,” says Debra Baskett, transportation manager for the city and county of Broomfield. An accident on the bridge over U.S. 36,…