DENVER—Transportation officials will begin rerouting traffic on Interstate 70 on Monday to allow crews to widen the westbound bore of the Twin Tunnels in Idaho Springs.
The Denver Post reports ( ) traffic will be rerouted from the west into the eastbound bore before blasting begins.
Benjamin Acimovic, a project manager with the Colorado Department of Transportation, says “we realize how important it is to keep traffic moving during the spring-break ski season, so we will only close lanes during off-peak travel times and we will monitor traffic flow so we can make adjustments as needed.”
The expansion is part of a $55 million project to ease congestion on the heavily traveled interstate, which links Denver with some of the state’s largest ski areas.
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Information from: The Denver Post,
