BAKERVILLE — One westbound lane of Interstate 70 between Bakerville and the Eisenhower Tunnel will be closed beginning today for emergency repairs to a 35-year-old bridge.
A stretch of about one-fifth of a mile will be closed beginning at 10 a.m., and is expected to reopen Friday, a transportation official said.
The bridge has had a recurring pothole. “After we examined it, we noticed the subsurface of the bridge deck might be failing, requiring repairs as soon as possible,” Colorado Department of Transportation project engineer Kevin Brown said.
A combination of heavy traffic and water channeling down the right lane of the bridge appears to have damaged that section of the bridge deck faster than usual, he said.
Brown said the goal was to have the highway fully open before heavy holiday and ski-season traffic.
