Great PSA for sure!
However, it's open Sat/Sun and I've taken it twice on Sundays heading to Denver ... which helps to avoid I70 traffic heading back to Denver.
That's why I said
weekdays in my post.
I know and wasn't suggesting you were wrong in any way. You posited sound advice. I was just offering up my experience on the weekend to call some more attention to the fact that it's still a good option if the days of the week work out and not to completely ditch it as an option. It also looks like Friday at 5:30 PM it's open, as well as Monday from 6:30AM - 8:30AM.
I'd be curious if anyone has experience getting through on a weekday during the windows they allocated to allow traffic to get through? I wouldn't chance it if I didn't have to, but do have sleep study in Gunninson coming up in a few weeks and will kind of be forced to do it.