Bridge Girder Installation Continues at C-470/Santa Fe Drive This Week

February 28, 2011 - DOUGLAS COUNTY — This week, February 28th through March 3rd, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will continue to set bridge girders for the new flyover ramp from southbound Santa Fe Drive to eastbound C-470.

The work will require various single lane closures and full closures of Santa Fe Drive as well as some of the ramps at the interchange.

To complete the girder installation, the following closures will be in place, weather permitting:

Monday, February 28th:

  • Southbound Santa Fe Drive between County Line Road and C-470: All lanes of southbound Santa Fe Drive will be closed from 9 p.m. Monday to 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.  Detour: Motorists will take County Line Road east to Lucent Boulevard where they will access westbound C-470.  Take westbound C-470 to Santa Fe Drive.
  • Northbound Santa Fe Drive between C-470 and County Line Road: All lanes of northbound Santa Fe Drive will be closed from 9 p.m. Monday to 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.  Detour: Motorists will take westbound C-470 to Platte Canyon Drive.  Take Platte Canyon Drive to Mineral Avenue where access to Santa Fe Drive is available.

Tuesday, March 1st:

  • Southbound Santa Fe Drive between Mineral Avenue and C-470: One lane of southbound Santa Fe Drive will be closed from 7 p.m. Tuesday to 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Wednesday, March 2nd:

  • Southbound Santa Fe Drive between Mineral Avenue and C-470: One lane of southbound Santa Fe Drive will be closed from 7 p.m. Wednesday to 5:30 a.m. Thursday.

Thursday, March 3rd:

  • Westbound C-470 at Santa Fe Drive: One lane of westbound C-470 will be closed from 8 p.m. Thursday to 5:30 a.m. Friday.
  • Westbound C-470 to Santa Fe Drive: The ramp from westbound C-470 to Santa Fe Drive will be completely closed from 8 p.m. to Thursday to 5:30 a.m. Friday.  Detour: Motorists will take Platte Canyon Drive to Mineral Avenue where access to Santa Fe Drive is available.
  • Northbound Santa Fe Drive between C-470 and County Line Road: One lane of northbound Santa Fe Drive will be closed from 8 p.m. Thursday to 5:30 a.m. on Friday.

Delays are expected throughout the week and alternate routes are strongly advised.  CDOT would like to remind motorists to plan ahead, obey all construction signs and flaggers and to “Slow for the Cone Zone.” Fines for most infractions that occur in the work zone will be doubled.

The work is part of a safety and mobility improvement project that constructs a flyover ramp from southbound Santa Fe Drive (US 85) to eastbound C-470.  In addition, the project will construct a new bridge over Erickson Boulevard as well as a bicycle/pedestrian bridge over Erickson Boulevard.  The bicycle/pedestrian trail will also be reconstructed.

The $26.7 million project is partially funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) as well as CDOT and Douglas County.  Edward Kraemer and Sons, Inc. is the contractor for this project scheduled to be complete by January 2012.

For more information about this project, visit http://www.coloradodot.info/projects/C470SantaFeInterchange.  To receive e-mail updates about the project, visit www.coloradodot.info and click on the icon in the upper right-hand corner.  The link will take you to a list of items you can subscribe to including the “C-470/Santa Fe” project listed under “Projects.”