CDOT wins $100 million federal grant for I-70 Floyd Hill project

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, right, ... — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, right, looks up to the I-70 Floyd Hill bridge, just east of Idaho Springs, while U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse speaks during a news conference on Feb. 23, 2022. Buttigieg was on his first leg of a two-day tour of Colorado to promote President Biden’s infrastructure bill. Floyd Hill is the site of an upcoming expansion project by CDOT that could benefit from the bill.(Andy Cross, The Denver Post)

By Jon Murray | jmurray@denverpost.com | The Denver Post

PUBLISHED: September 12, 2022 at 3:38 PM MDT

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The federal government will chip in $100 million toward CDOT's next big project: a drastic rebuilding of Interstate 70 at Floyd Hill that, in the latest designs, would smooth out its sharpest curve by crossing westbound traffic over the eastbound side.

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