The Denver Business Journal reports that Wednesday’s public hearing on the last leg of Denver’s beltway is likely to draw a crowd. The issue is whether to include the 20-mile section between U.S. 36 through Golden and down to Interstate 70 in the region’s long-range transportation plan.

Getting a project included in the plan is a critical step among many that are needed to bring a proposal to reality.

But opponents are lining up against adding the initial phase of an estimated $203 million, 10-mile, private toll road dubbed the Jefferson Parkway. The first phase runs between between CO 93 and CO 128.

The Denver Regional Council of Governments will hold the public hearing at 7 p.m. in the Colorado History Museum Boettcher Auditorium, 1300 Broadway.

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