CDOT considers using I-70 shoulders as traffic lanes
CDOT is considering using the shoulders of I-70 to help relieve traffic. David Gidley, Summit Daily file
Highway officials returned from a trip to Minnesota looking at Interstate 70 with a new eye toward its shoulders - using them as occasional traffic lanes.
Highway shoulder space has been successfully transformed into an extra lane of travel to help increase traffic flow on Interstate 94 between Minneapolis and St. Paul, a concept officials say might work on I-70.
“We're excited,” Colorado Department of Transportation engineer Peter Kozinski. “It's a way of using the pavement we have.”
Read how and where the shoulders of I-70 might be used.
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