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STATE OF COLORADO
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
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�'` c> 198 "FIFTY MILLION" CLUB
Users Continue to Save Time, ,Money
Real estate agents join the Million Dollar Club, in terms of sales.
Business firms set various million-dollar sales or production goals. Colo-
rado's Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel, on Interstate 70 sixty miles west of Denver,
has earned its "Fifty Million" status in terms of vehicles served.
The total traffic count since the facility opened was 51,281,380 vehi-
cles as of September 30 this year. In September alone, more than 492 thousand
vehicles used the tunnel complex.
It probably occurs to very few of those motorists that the trip saves
an estimated $4.48 compared with the U.S. 6 route over Loveland Pass.
Road user benefits were recently updated to reflect $1.62 in "running
cost" savings (fuel, tires, oil, maintenance, depreciation) along with $2.86
in time savings (the value of drive time calculated to be $5.75 per hour) . A
tunnel traveler saves 91 miles distance compared with the drive over the
Continental Divide, and saves at least half an hour in drive time. During winter
storms at twelve thousand feet above sea level, the money and time savings would
probably double or even triple. Loveland Pass is 11,992 feet above sea level.
The twin bores were expensive to build: almost $117 million for the
first tunnel finished in 1973, and about $145 million for the Edwin C. Johnson
Bore opened to eastbound traffic December 23, 1979. And operating costs
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continue: salaries along with maintenance and operations spending during the
1983/84 fiscal year ending last July amounted to $2,860,035. But during
September alone, users of the tunnel saved more than two million dollars in time
and money.
Some motorists, over the years, have saved in more important ways. Ask
the mother whose baby son lost consciousness and respiration for no apparent
reason, and was revived by tunnel employees before travel to a Denver hospital
for full medical treatment. Or ask the driver whose car caught fire in the
eastbound, Edwin C. Johnson Bore last winter; three tunnel maintenancemen quickly
extinguished the blaze, before damage could occur to the facility, while shells
and cartridges in the vehicle began to explode.
Each month the tunnel complex logs a number of medical assistance inci-
dents. State employees offer first aid treatment to persons suffering from traffic
accidents, heart attacks, altitude sickness, drug-related problems or respira-
tory ailments. On staff are a paramedic and three Emergency Medical Technicians.
Monthly drills are conducted to develop sophisticated fire rescue and
extrication abilities. Employees receive regular training in first aid and
cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) .
Motorists driving through one of the twin bores see only the bottom third
of a tunnel whose mined portion rises above the ceiling in a horseshoe shape. Un-
seen are the foremen and workers who keep the 1.7-mile-long complex running
smoothly. The work is mechanical, electrical, or computer-oriented; it involves
maintenance of air quality control equipment, a sewage plant, and special wrecker/
fire trucks.
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As winter deepens in the high country employees will be maintaining the
regular and standby ventilation fans, monitoring traffic flow on banks of
television screens, and preparing for peak periods of ski traffic. Whether the
facility is judged in terms of fuel saved, time saved, medical assistance or
even convenience, the tunnel complex is paying for itself.
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BWM 1673(4) BIKEPATH IN DENVER
The Department's Division of Highways accepted four bids at the November
1 opening for a Set-Aside concrete bikeway project to be built in southern
Denver. Only certified, prequalified minority business enterprises were allowed
to submit proposals.
The project is located along S. Yosemite St. beginning at Syracuse Way
and extending 0.2 mile northerly toward the Highline Canal. It includes curb anfl
gutter, grading, structures, hot bituminous pavement overlay, seeding and mulching.
Koga Engineering & Construction, Inc. of Littleton submitted an apparently
successful bid of $149,695 on the project. Resident engineer is Bernie Paiz of
Aurora; the project requires completion within 60 workable days following the
Notice to Proceed.
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I 25-2(154) C-470 TRI-LEVEL
STRUCTURES
The Division of Highways accepted eleven bids at the November 1 opening
for a project to build tri-level structures at the junction of Interstate 25 and
Denver's southwest circumferential Centennial Parkway (C-470) . An apparently
successful bid of $3,587,110 was received from Flatiron Structures Company of
BP'iadr.
The project, in Douglas county, requires completion within 175 working
days following the Notice to Proceed. John Ward of Englewood is resident engineer.
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Project
Area WINTER RECESS CALLED
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5H 402 ��� Mar FOR I-25 RESURFACING
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Interstate 25 concrete repaving
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finished during November, as scheduled.
JOHNSTOWN Instead, work will be suspended for the win-
5H60 ter and resumed next May.
Since June, motorists northbound
on I-25 have used a frontage road east of
t +� the Interstate. By mid-November, this
BERTI•1O(JP , traffic will be returned to I-25 lanes; the
SH 56 tf frontage road's one-way signs will be covered
and local traffic will again use the road in
both directions.
Southbound I-25 lanes are nearly
Lcompleted. As soon as the concrete slabs
are sealed and lanes are striped, south-
bound traffic will be returned to this new
al roadway from the northbound lanes used
this summer.
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Beginning next spring, northbound
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I-25 traffic will again be detoured onto the
MEAD east frontage road, one-way northbound.
Eisenhour Construction Company,
r P1H6t5TJla the prime contractor, faces monetary penalties
Phasefor the project delay. These penalties in-
crease with each workable day (one when weather
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PI.ATTEVIu.E permits activity on the project site) beyond
514 66 the project deadline.
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BIDS TO BE OPENED
Nov. 21: !Wednesday bid openings due to the holiday' (Thanksgiving
Day Nov. 22) . 9:30 a.m. , Modifying the I-25, Arapahoe Road (S.H. 88) inter-
change south of Denver, consisting of grading, stabilization, hot bituminous
pavement, structures, bridge, curb and gutter, topsoil, seeding, signalization,
lighting, signing, and striping, in Arapahoe county, IR 25-2 (165) .
9:45 a.m. , I-25 sound barrier fence in Northglenn, con-
sisting of sound barrier, located on I-25, beginning 0.33 mile north of 104th
Avenue and extending 0.3 mile northerly, in Adams county, IR 25-3(82) .
10:00 a.m. , I-70 seal coat east of Glenwood Canyon,consist-
ing of plant mix seal coat, hot bituminous pavement spot leveling, structures
and striping, located on I-70 for 1512 miles west of Eagle, in Eagle county,
I 70-2(133) .
10:15 a.m. , Widening S.H. 14 east of Fort Collins, consisting
of concrete box culvert, grading, structures, stabilization, hot bituminous pave-
ment, striping, topsoil, seeding and mulching, beginning 0.3 mile east of the
1-25 interchange and extending 0.6 mile easterly, in Larimer county, FR 014-2(12) .
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CONTRACTS AWARDED
Road/ Bid Contract
Project Street Description Awarded To Opening Awarded
C 03-0014-21 SH 14 a project to resurface 7.3 Flatiron Pav- 10/11/84 10/17/84
miles of SH 14 east of ing Co.
Ault -- hot bituminous $266,906
pavement overlay begins
5.7 miles east of the
community & extends
easterly.
FC 024-3(20) US 24 to replace US 24 Bridge Graaeer' Con 9/20/84 10/18/84
near Simla in Elbert atmlot*on, Inc,
county. $18038,497
FR 082-1(11) SH 82 project to improve Elam Construction,9/27/84 10/19/84
$Ii 82 near Woody Creek Inc.
in Pitkin county r-- $349,270
begins 5,5 miles north
of Aspen & extends 0.4
mile southerly.
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CONTRACTS AWARDED
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Road/ Bid Contract
Project Street Description Awarded To Opening Awarded
C 18-0187-01 SH 187 to rehabilitate a SH 187 Grand Construction 10/4/94 10/19/84
bridge over the north Co.
fork of the Gunnison $236,025
River in Delta county--
stub route connects
Paonia to SH 133
C 13-0006-06 US 6 & combined project to re- Don Kehn Con- 10/25/84 10/25/84
C 13-0014-23 SH 14 surface segments of struction, Inc.
US 6 & SH 14 in and $193,956
near Sterling.
FR 385-1(2) US 385 widening US 385 east of Sterling Paving Co. 10/11/84 10/26/84
Idalia -- project $866,693
begins four miles
south of the US 36
junction & extends
nine miles north --
net length 6.4 miles.
IR 225-4(32) I-225 developing ramp metefing Mountain States
for northbound I-225 in Paving, Inc. 10/4/84 10/30/84
Adams & Arapahoe counties - $1,325,859
begins half a mile north
of Colfax Avenue in Aurora
& extends 612 miles southerly
to Parker Road---northbound
on-ramps at Iliff, Miss-
issippi, 6th & Colfax Avenues
are to be signalized to
meter traffic.
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