Eight municipalities in Adams, Weld and Boulder Counties and now working with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to consider significant expansion and rerouting of Colorado 7 to accommodate future development and transportation planning. Under review is the section of highway stretching east from Lafayette, bordering Broomfield, Erie and Dacono, and that runs through sections of Brighton. The municipalities and CDOT are cooperating to raise the $700,000 needed to complete the planning. The goal is to determine where additional lanes, realignments, traffic signals and intersection improvements are needed. CDOT will add $350,000 to the funding. Brighton officials are very interested in rerouting around its downtown and to mitigate high volume, high speed traffic. Locally, Lafayette and Erie are cooperating to reroute the highway north along 119th Street to Arapahoe, mitigating the nearly 20,000 vehicles that pass through Lafayette daily. Once funded, the study will commence in January 2008.
Source: BARA/In Region
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