This project will improve I-70 from Floyd Hill to Veterans Memorial Tunnel. The project will increase travel-time reliability, increase capacity on the highway, improve safety, reduce impacts to local communities and reduce collisions with wildlife with a wildlife underpass. The project will improve the reliability and mobility of a critical transportation corridor that connects Idaho Springs (a CEJST-identified disadvantaged community) and adjacent rural communities to employment centers and health and human services facilities, and it will improve commuting conditions for residents. CDOT's On-the-Job-Training program, which includes goals for disadvantaged persons and apprenticeships for skilled crafts resulting in high-quality, good paying jobs, is incorporated into the project; the General Contractor for the project is a union contractor that implements Department of Labor-approved apprenticeship programs; and CDOT has committed to 20% disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) involvement in the project design and construction phases.
