DENVER—Following input from hundreds of Denver residents, the Colorado Department of Transportation says it will redraft a plan for replacing the aging Interstate 70 viaduct between Brighton Boulevard and Colorado Boulevard.
A 2008 draft environmental impact statement proposed replacing the viaduct and shifting it into adjoining neighborhoods or realigning it along Interstate 270 and through the low-income Elyria neighborhood.
In May, CDOT presented an option to replace the viaduct with a lowered highway, with a cover over a two-block section near Swansea Elementary School that could become a park.
CDOT said Thursday that revising the draft statement to include the new option could take two years. The new option would cost an estimated $917 million, or up to $150 million more than revising the viaduct.
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