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December 19 , 1985
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FAIR WEATHER FAVORED
TWO HIGHWAY OPENINGS
December ' s snow and cold relented earlier this month
for the opening of the initial segments of the Denver area ' s
Interstate 76 and C-470 highways .
A ceremony held Tuesday. December 3 opened the first
1.2 - mile segment of Interstate 76 along the Clear Creek
corridor north of Denver . The four- lane highway will
eventually connect 1-70 at Wadsworth Blvd . with 1- 76 at its
present terminus at 1-25 . The segment from Wadsworth Blvd. to
Sheridan Blvd. is now serving motorists .
Highway Department Deputy Director Dwight Bower (see
photo) represented the state agency at a ribbon cutting
ceremony on 1-76 . Shown in the photograph, left to right
behind Bower , are Jefferson county commissioner Rich
Ferdinandsen; Highway Department District VI engineer Dick
Brasher ; and Captain John Callahan of the Colorado State Patrol .
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Phase I of C-470. the Denver area ' s southwest
circumferential Centennial Parkway. was opened Saturday.
December 7 with a 10. 000-meter footrace and ceremony. Offering
four lanes of new alignment between Interstate 25 and South
Santa Fe Drive south of Littleton. the route combines with.
existing four lane highway to provide 11. 7 miles of the
eventual 26-mile beltway. On December 7 the " ribbon" consisted
of C-470 design plan sheets, stretched across eastbound lanes
near Broadway and burst by a Colorado Charter Lines bus
carrying dignitaries .
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December 19, 1985
I-76-1(92) and I 76-1(97) I-76 IN ADAMS COUNTY
The Department ' s Division of Highways accepted ten bids at
the December 19 opening for a combined bridge construction project
on I-76 over Clear Creek in Adams county. One project consists of
two bridges, structures, grading, topsoil, seeding, and mulching,
beginning 620 feet east of Lowell Blvd. and extending 700 ft . east.
A second project includes grading, structures, topsoil, seeding and
mulching, located adjacent to I-76 on Clear Creek beginning 950 feet
east of Lowell Blvd. and extending 855 feet east.
Lawrence Construction Company of Littleton turned in an
apparently successful bid of $2, 911, 351 for the combined project,
which requires completion within 240 calendar days after its Notice
to Proceed. Steve Horton of Arvada is resident engineer .
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BRO 0003(1) S.H. 37 NEAR GREELEY
K.E.C. I Colorado, Inc. of Littleton submitted an apparently
successful bid of $237, 136 at the Division of Highways December 19
opening to replace a bridge on S.H. 37 over the Greeley Ditch #2 one
tenth of a mile north of S.H. 392. Four firms bid the project,
which requires completion within 50 workable days.
The project consists of grading, one bridge, structures,
stabilization, hot bituminous pavement, and striping. L.G. Duncan
of Greeley is resident engineer.
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I-IR 70-3(137) I-70 NEAR DAKOTA
SANDSTONE HOGBACK
Resident engineer Larry McKenzie of Littleton will
coordinate an improvement project for I-70 near the Dakota Sandstone
Hogback, if contract award follows Division of Highways December 19
bidding activity.
Ames Construction, Inc. , of Englewood submitted an
apparently successful bid of $1, 521, 120 for a project which includes
grading, structures, stabilization, concrete box culvert, concrete
and hot bituminous pavement, signing, guardrail, striping, topsoil ,
seeding and mulching. Seven firms bid the project which is located
on I-70, beginning north of the 1-70 and S.H. 40/S.H. 26 interchange
and extending 1.8 miles northeast. The project calls for completion
within 100 workable days from its Notice to Proceed.
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December 19. 1985
BIDS TO BE OPENED
ADD: Jan. 9: 9 :00 a.m. , Improving East 74th Ave. in
Adams county, consisting of grading, bridge, stabilization, hot
bituminous pavement, signing, striping, topsoil, seeding and
mulching, located on S.H. 224 beginning eight tenths of a mile
west of York Street and extending 0.09 miles east,
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consisting of grading, structures, stabilization, hot
bituminous pavement, signing, striping, topsoil, seeding and
mulching, extending two tenths of a mile east. Combined
projects BRM 0224(3) and MP 12-0224-14 .
*Certified, prequalified MINORITY bidders only.
9: 15 a.m. , Minor realignment of U.S. 24
east of Buena Vista, consisting of grading, stabilization,
structures, hot bituminous pavement, concrete box culvert,
guardrail, seeding and mulching, beginning five and one half
miles east of Johnson Village and extending four tenths of a
mile east, in Chaffee county, HES 0005(12) .
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