Communities in the U.S. 36 corridor will bid for as much as $200 million in federal stimulus money to help extend high-occupancy vehicle/high-occupancy toll lanes on the highway from Pecos Street to Table Mesa Drive in Boulder, the Denver Post reports.

An environmental study identified the addition of one HOV/HOT lane in each direction as a core element in the first phase of improvements for the corridor, along with a parallel bikeway and upgrades to key interchanges.

The “managed lanes,” as they are called, would be reserved for carpools, buses and single-occupant vehicles that pay a toll, much like the HOT lanes that run from Pecos and U.S. 36 to downtown Denver near Coors Field.

Read the entire story at the Denver Post.