A $12 million contract to reconstruct and widen a heavily traveled stretch of South Broadway won easy approval Tuesday night from the Denver City Council.
The project is south of Interstate 25, smoothing a notorious bottleneck between Arizona and Kentucky avenues. It will add turn lanes and a third through lane north of Mississippi Avenue.
Castle Rock Construction Co. also will replace pock-marked asphalt with a concrete roadway on Broadway. Along Mississippi near that intersection, the project will add turn lanes and other improvements.
With more transit-oriented development planned for the area, which is near the Broadway light-rail station, . They will have to cross as many as nine lanes at intersections.
Planners say several changes will aid pedestrians, including curb extensions that narrow the roadways at intersections, improved lighting and center medians in some places. The project also calls for a 10-foot-wide multi-use sidewalk along the east side of Broadway.
New apartment buildings have opened at the intersection with Mississippi Avenue, and hundreds more residential units are on tap in coming years as .
