Denver, located in the neighboring state of Colorado, may have historically been a crucial stopover for people traveling through or neighboring Nebraska, but its transportation network poses unique challenges for travelers and commuters alike. Amidst the picturesque backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, Denver's roads are often marred by heavy traffic congestion, despite being a milestone for weary travelers journeying across the Great Plains. Historically, the Pikes Peak Highway, constructed in 1915 as a toll road to the summit of Pikes Peak, served as a perilous yet breathtaking passage into Colorado. Today, however, the Colorado Department of Transportation handles maintenance and upkeep for the highway.

Commuters navigating Denver face not only the daunting task of traversing its congestion-prone roads but also the difficulties inherent to the city's expanding urban footprint. By 1962, plans for a north-south highway bisecting the city – Interstate 25 (I-25), had already materialized as part of the massive federal US construction push, but construction was painstaking. Despite its major role in alleviating traffic pressure, even modern-day reconstruction and maintenance tasks prove arduous. Notably, Denver's recent endeavor – the Central 70 Project – to upgrade a major I-70 highway section near downtown exposed substantial concerns about noise and air pollution in neighboring communities.

Urban planners working to mitigate the city's notorious 'gridlock' and regional connectivity obstacles concurrently collaborate with public transit officials to devise an interlocking network better integrated into urban infrastructure. The city previously extended a state-of-the-art, twenty-three-mile rail line under its aegis – the E, F, and R lines of RTD's commuter heavy rail service, to span between Denver Union Station and the southeastern DTC district in late 2017. Continued concern for the multi-lane highways connecting communities however may indicate need for city growth over capacity problems.

However one may slice the data Denver has trouble tackling congestion within its freeway network, this much can be said: progress has been measured through studies collecting traffic patterns from the cities 10 monitoring stations. A recent change, 2016-2018 increased vehicles were 7 percent compared to population and jobs increased by about 9 percent and that shows that vehicle miles traveled per capita are actually slightly decreasing. As the data suggests this would help fight congestion and build effective solutions.

The issue of transit infrastructure investment can become more a complex and public discourse issue amidst the long term development in Denver's infrastructure ecosystem. On both land and air this is an issue that tends to happen with population growth patterns. Often the problem with infrastructure growth in new metropolitan areas – such as that surrounding the Denver International Airport – and their large growth patterns follow similar challenges seen in Denver.

Denver serves a regional airport and is well established connecting nonstop travel to locations such 134 airports in US. This may mitigate commute through improved air access yet concerns of what development close to this metropolitan area entails as would continue construction for expansion of connections.

Evidence does indeed weigh on this point as these concerns will progress to the top minds whom have influence on current environmental issue patterns set through DIA regional neighborhood planning efforts. Ultimately we seek not the answer of when our answer or conclusion to current infrastructure but when was a solution first developed – from which the influence, need arose.

Despite this the Federal grant award by the US Department of Transportation in conjunction with Denver's city budgeted RTD projects prove a necessity due to its close knit connection into our current and historical problems presented to Denver residents as they grow our international air and land airport accessibility further.