Colorado’s Legislature wants to kill mountain dead zones

It’s an experience familiar to most Colorado drivers: You’re heading into a beautiful canyon or up a windy mountain pass
when your cell phone bars suddenly drop to zero. On a smooth trip, you might not even notice. But in the case of an accident,
those dead zones can rapidly become a major problem. For mountain residents, this experience is all too common.

“Wolcott, that’s my biggest frustration. Wolcott Canyon is just, it annoys the heck out of me,” said State Sen. Dylan Robers
of Frisco. “And then parts of Vail Pass, and then going from Silverthorne up to the tunnel, there’s that one spot where you
will always lose service.”

Roberts sits on the state legislature’s Cell Phone Connectivity Interim Study Committee, which was created by lawmakers
this year to come up with solutions for these types of hard-to-serve spots. To help with that task, he and other committee
members recently toured Glenwood Canyon, a particularly difficult stretch of highway that’s become a statewide success story.

Bob Fifer, deputy director of operations at the Colorado Department of Transportation, who also sits on the committee,
was one of their guides.

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