CDOT Press Release

Tonight, the Colorado Department of Transportation will close one lane of eastbound C-470 between Santa Fe Drive and Lucent Boulevard for concrete work. The closure will be in place from 8 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. and delays are expected. Despite the work tonight, there will be no lane closures this weekend due to possible inclement weather.

“We are getting to a point where temperatures may not be warm enough for us to pave so the weekend work will be scheduled on a week to week basis,” said CDOT Project Engineer Scott Smith. “We will continue to work as much as possible when we have warm temperatures, but the majority of the paving operations will likely take place next spring.”

Next week, crews will continue to conduct some minor work during daytime hours that will require a single lane closure on northbound and southbound University Boulevard at C-470 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Minor delays are expected and alternate routes are advised.

CDOT would like to remind motorists to obey all traffic signs and flaggers and to “Slow for the cone zone.” Most fines will be doubled if the infraction occurs in the work zone.

Major concrete repairs on the C-470 bike path between I-25 and I-70 are also underway. As a result, a small section of the bike path between Rooney Road and Alameda Avenue will be closed. Bicyclists will be asked to dismount and walk around the construction zone.

This work is part of an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) project. The $32 million project will repair nine miles of C-470 and then pave the entire length in asphalt. Concrete repairs will also be made along 26 miles of the C-470 bike path between I-25 and I-70.

Castle Rock Construction Co. of Centennial is the contractor for this project, which is scheduled to be complete in July 2010.

In all, Colorado will receive more than $400 million from the Recovery Act for transportation projects and $103 million for transit projects. For more information about how Colorado is putting the recovery act to work, visit www.colorado.gov/recovery. For a list of CDOT’s Recovery Act projects, visit www.dot.state.co.us/arra.