New traffic pattern introduced at Fillmore and I-25

The Colorado Department of Transportation opened the Diverging Diamond Interchange on Fillmore and I-25 Friday.

It’s the third of its kind in Colorado, and it introduces a kind of traffic pattern drivers aren’t used to.

“We normally drive on the right side of the road? Well across the bridge, across the interchange, the two traffic patters are going to cross each other and then cross back on the other side,” CDOT Resident Engineer John Hall said. “It actually it is a little bit intuitive, in the sense that if you were going to make a left onto I-25, you’re still going to get in that left lane, and you’re still going to turn left on I-25, but you’re not going to go against, the cross traffic, when you do that.”

Drivers have mixed reactions.

“It was okay,” driver Luke Dowel said. “I came right through. I didn’t have any troubles.”

“I don’t like it at all,” Lyschel Hartway said. “I don’t like it at all. It’s too clustered, cars are coming from every different direction, it’s just too much.

CDOT says it will just take some getting used to.