The Colorado Department of Transportation is hoping toll lanes will improve traffic on a 12.5-mile stretch of C-470 between I-25 and Wadsworth Boulevard after a three-year construction project set to begin this summer.
"The traveling public has asked CDOT to relieve congestion within this critical corridor," CDOT Project Director Jerome Estes said in a statement.
More than 100,000 drivers travel through the segment every day, and CDOT projects volume to increase 40 percent in the next 20 years.
Broomfield-based Flatiron Construction Corp. and Los Angeles-based AECOM were announced as the project's contractors in April.
An exact date for the beginning of construction has not been finalized.
"We're still in final stages of negotiation with the contractors," CDOT spokewoman Linda Wilson said.
The project will add two tolled express lanes westbound from I-25 to Colorado Boulevard and one from Colorado to Wadsworth. Eastbound, there will be one toll lane from Wadsworth to I-25.
The project also includes upgrades to pavement and interchanges, realignment of curves, the replacement of bridges over the South Platte River and widening of other bridges.
The project will cost $318 million, including debt service. It is mostly funded by loans that will be repaid with the tolls collected.
The lanes are expected to be complete in the spring of 2019. Wilson said CDOT plans to keep all existing lanes open throughout the project.
from Lakewood Sentinel - Latest Stories http://lakewoodsentinel.com/stories/Coming-soon-C-470-toll-lane-project,213207
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