Highway work on I-70 will create weekend journey delays between mountains and Denver International Airport

Colorado transportation officers are warning drivers taking Interstate 70 to Denver International Airport of journey impacts over the subsequent two weekends.

Full closures of I-70 in each instructions are required to finish “critical bridge repairs” of interstate bridges over Kipling Street, or Colorado Highway 391, in Wheatridge, in response to a information launch from the Colorado Department of Transportation. Traffic delays of half-hour or extra are anticipated.

The two closures, every of which can final a bit of over 80 hours, are deliberate from 7 p.m. Friday evenings to six a.m. Tuesday mornings from Sept. 18-22 and Sept. 25-29, the discharge states. 

A detour rerouting I-70 site visitors by the Kipling Street interchange utilizing the on- and off-ramps will likely be in place all through the closures, in response to CDOT. Because the on- and off-ramps will function short-term journey lanes, motorists won’t be able to enter or exit I-70 at Kipling Street, which will likely be closed in each instructions on the interchange.

Travelers can go to COTrip.org for a map of lively highway circumstances and closures or go to CDOT.gov/projects/i70/kiplinggarrisonbridge for extra info on the venture.