LITTLETON, Colo. — Littleton’s treasured community of trails for pedestrians and cyclists will see a giant change subsequent 12 months.
Close to the spot the place the Lee Gulch and Excessive Line Canal Trails meet, the trail shortly goes from tranquil to site visitors. Pedestrians and cyclists need to detour off the path to cross South Broadway at Jamison Avenue, a busy intersection that additionally consists of Littleton Adventist Hospital.
Beginning this spring, Broadway will shift to just one lane of site visitors in each instructions in that space. These lane shifts are anticipated to final about six months, in response to the Metropolis of Littleton.
The town is working to interchange a failing culvert beneath the road, a part of a roughly $9 million venture.
“In June of ’23, we had important rain occasions and had a couple of sinkholes all through the town,” stated Sarah White, water sources supervisor for the Metropolis of Littleton. “I have not slept properly since this primary sinkhole began. So it’ll be fairly vital to get this carried out.”
The town additionally determined if it’ll dig a 30-foot trench under Broadway — and work round quite a few electrical, fiber, water and fuel traces — it’ll add greater than only a concrete pipe for secure water movement.
“To have the ability to get one thing that huge by, it is sort of a once-in-a-lifetime expertise,” stated White. “So [we’re] taking the many of the alternative.”
The town now plans to construct an underpass under Broadway to permit path customers to cruise by and bypass the busy intersection. The plan is to incorporate lighting and make the underpass ADA-compliant.
Metropolis of Littleton
“I might like to cross Broadway with out crossing Broadway,” stated Cynthia Schallenmuller, who steadily rides her bike on the path. “The battle is the distracted drivers. Individuals that aren’t conscious of bicycles. So it is good to know that there [will be] a spot the place I can experience, and I can get from this aspect of Broadway to the opposite aspect and I haven’t got to cope with the site visitors.”
White stated Arapahoe County Open Areas and South Suburban Parks and Recreation are contributing a complete of roughly $3 million towards the venture.
“A part of the venture delays is simply making an attempt to determine fund all of it,” she stated, including that the town is “nearly there.”
The town hopes work can begin throughout the subsequent month or so, but additionally stated there might be two weeks of superior discover given to drivers forward of the lane closures.
The underpass and path updates are anticipated to be prepared in a few 12 months, White stated.
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