Work will start Sunday to take away and change all cameras, message boards, lane-use indicators and fiber within the Interstate 70 Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel, a venture that’s anticipated to take till summer season of 2024.
The route of in a single day site visitors must be alternated Sundays by means of Thursdays, with full closure of 1 bore of the tunnel at a time. Work will start at 10 p.m. and final till 5 a.m.
When one tunnel bore is closed, site visitors alongside Interstate 70 in each instructions might be stopped on the tunnel entrance. Visitors in a single route at a time might be escorted by means of the open bore.
The Colorado Division of Transportation mentioned site visitors stops are anticipated to final for 20 minutes. Delays are anticipated to be minimal as a result of the work might be completed in a single day.
The venture by CDOT and contractor Sturgeon Electrical will improve the cameras and indicators within the tunnel that CDOT’s site visitors operations heart makes use of to watch the protection and well being of vacationers driving by means of the Eisenhower Tunnel. The gear is used 24/7 to watch the tunnel and to alert the touring public of any delays.
Closures of the bores are mandatory as a result of the cameras and indicators can’t be eliminated and changed whereas site visitors is driving underneath them. The work is being coordinated with different upgrades of the infrastructure on the Eisenhower Tunnel.
Work will begin on westbound I-70 within the Eisenhower bore. No in a single day full-bore closures will happen on Friday or Saturday nights or on holidays.
For extra details about the venture, individuals can contact the venture workforce: codot.gov/initiatives/ejmt-infrastructure-repairs; data hotline: 970-704-8066; venture e mail: ejmtunnelprojects@gmail.com.