The Boulder Daily Camera reports that bus commuters from Boulder to Denver on U.S. 36 may see an average of 15 minutes shaved from their daily travel time by this summer.

The Regional Transportation District is in the midst of two major projects along the congested highway that will complete the first phase of “bus rapid transit” improvements.

A pedestrian bridge that’s halfway installed over U.S. 36 at the Odeum Colorado, formerly the Broomfield Event Center, is scheduled to have its counterpart welded into place Monday night.

In Boulder, the last project among the first-phase improvements — which is expected to take an additional three or four minutes off the bus commute to Denver — is the planned construction of a pedestrian bridge over U.S. 36 between Table Mesa Drive and Foothills Parkway.

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