GLENWOOD SPRINGS – —Engineers and community leaders have winnowed the 11 alignment options for a new Grand Avenue Bridge down to four, including one option to build a new bridge right where the current bridge is today.
The Colorado Department of Transportation is slated to present the four options at a community open house and meeting next week, with time for people to ask questions and express their views on the bridge options.
The agency has budgeted $59 million to design and build a new bridge replacing the city’s primary route across the Colorado River.
If all goes as planned, the planning process will run through fall 2013, followed by a full year to develop the final bridge design. Construction is expected to take up to two and a half years, from early 2015 until fall of 2017.
CDOT initially presented 11 bridge options, and another three designs for a roundabout at Sixth and Laurel, in April. In an effort to consider creative solutions, the combinations included launching the bridge from Colorado, Grand and Cooper avenues in downtown, and landing the bridge along Sixth Street at Laurel, Maple and Pine streets.
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