BROOMFIELD — After years of planning and searching for money, Broomfield’s biggest highway project in years is due to get underway next month.
Bulldozers and backhoes are scheduled to get to work on the 120th Avenue Connection in the next three weeks, although a groundbreaking date hasn’t been set.
Impact studies and plans for the $90 million project — of which Broomfield is projected to pay $19.6 million — have been in the works since 2001.
The Colorado Department of Transportation and Broomfield hosted an open house last week to tell residents what to expect. About a dozen engineers and officials from the two agencies used charts and artist renderings to explain their plans.
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 Colorado 128 and Wadsworth Parkway, near the current RTD park-n- Ride. The eastern end point is Wadsworth Boulevard.
