Two Signals Activated on Highway 96 FASTER Project
Signals are alternating eastbound and westbound traffic at Black Draw (mile 114.5), four miles east of Sugar City, and at a draw, nine miles west of Arlington (mile 121.1). Both signals are functioning 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and are timed to minimize wait times for stopped vehicles.
Over-width vehicles, wider than 12 feet, will need to use an alternate route while the detours are in place. This restriction is expected to continue through early June 2011.
When construction is completed at both sites, work will begin to replace two other bridges – at a draw seven miles west of Arlington (mile 123.2), and at a draw, two miles west of Haswell (mile 141.9). Signalized detours also will alternate traffic at these locations.
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) project, scheduled for completion in early summer 2011, involves removing the current bridges and new bridge construction, road reconstruction, asphalt paving, erosion control, seeding, mulching, signing and striping.
FASTER – Funding Advancements for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery – is fully funding the $2.9 million project. Financed by vehicle registration fees, FASTER established a Statewide Bridge Enterprise, funding the maintenance and repair of Colorado’s most urgent structurally-deficient and functionally-obsolete bridges. Additional information is accessible at: www.coloradodot.info/projects/faster.
Updated information regarding traffic impacts on this or other CDOT projects is available at www.coloradodot.info/travel/scheduled-lane-closures.html or by calling 511. To receive project updates via e-mail, visit www.coloradodot.info and click on the cell-phone icon in the upper right-hand corner. The link takes you to a list of items you can subscribe to, including Southeast Colorado.
