The Boulder Daily Camera reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday during a visit to Broomfield that the recent stimulus grant to extend U.S. 36’s bus, car pool and managed lanes will give that project “a running start” and bring jobs to the area. Pelosi was in Broomfield to tout the anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The project to widen U.S. 36 will receive $10 million from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program. The project was one of 51 winners selected from more than 1,400 applicants. The grant was announced Feb. 17.
Crews for the Regional Transportation District are scheduled to close one lane in each direction of U.S. 36 between Church Ranch Boulevard and Wadsworth Parkway from 6 a.m. through 9 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 27, to pour the curbs on the deck of the pedestrian bridge.
The Denver Post reports that the Denver Regional Council of Governments board of directors voted Wednesday night to include the proposed Jefferson Parkway toll road in the group’s long-range transportation plan. The vote was 35 to 17.
Jefferson County, Broomfield and Arvada have been promoting the toll highway, which would run from the Interlocken commercial complex just off U.S. 36 to CO 93 north of Golden. Officials from the city of Golden and communities in Boulder County were among those opposing the effort to include the toll highway in DRCOG’s plan.
This view looking southwest from U.S. 36 in Broomfield shows where the new 120th Avenue Connection will cross the open field.
A major project gets underway Thursday in Broomfield to unsnarl a traffic mess where the drivers snarl as much as the roads – the 120th Avenue Connection that eventually will allow east-west traffic to cross the Boulder Turnpike directly instead of having to make detours.
The Colorado Department of Transportation, Broomfield and the Federal Highway Administration are funding the $23 million design-build project that is being handled by a team headed by Edward Kraemer & Sons and HNTB. The construction period is about 18 months.
This initial phase of construction will build the major elements, including a new bridge curving over the turnpike about four-tenths of a mile southeast of the Wadsworth Parkway bridge. It will allow east-west traffic to bypass the worst of the congestion.
After years of planning and searching for money, Broomfield’s biggest highway project in years is due to get under way next month. Bulldozers and backhoes are scheduled to get to work on the 120th Avenue Connection in the next three weeks, reports the Daily Camera.
The first phases of the project will build a six-lane viaduct to carry traffic over U.S. 36 and another bridge to carry traffic over Commerce Street. The western terminus is the intersection of Colo. 128 and Wadsworth Parkway, near the current RTD Park-n-Ride. The eastern end point is Wadsworth Boulevard.
Could $1.2 million from three local communities start a controversial highway project that $15 million from the Colorado Department of Transportation couldn’t? That`s the hope of elected officials in Broomfield, Arvada and Jefferson County, which each have given $400,000 to the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority, reports the Broomfield Enterprise.
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