GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Project planners prefer a new Grand Avenue Bridge that would align with the intersection of Sixth and Laurel north of the Colorado River near the Interstate 70 interchange.
The selection of Alternative 3 as the preferred alignment comes after bridge project team members, including state and federal highway officials and representatives from the city of Glenwood Springs, completed their initial evaluation of the remaining alternatives last week.
“That evaluation resulted in a recommendation that the Alternative 3 alignment be further developed and evaluated through the Environmental Assessment [EA] process,” said project engineer and spokesman Joe Elsen of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).
Elsen said the Sixth and Laurel alignment has several advantages over the other remaining alternative that had made it through the screening process to this point.
Alternative 1, as it is known, would keep the bridge on its existing alignment from Grand to the corner of Sixth and Pine, next to the Hotel Colorado and the Hot Springs Pool.
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