Daily News Briefs, October 10, 2022

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New Diverging Diamond Interchange Is Part Of Colorado I-25 Express Project

Greeley Tribune reports, last week, Colorado DOT opened one lane of a new diverging diamond interchange at the intersection of Colorado 60 and I-25 in Johnstown. When work is completed next year, the facility will have two lanes in each direction, a 10-foot-wide sidewalk and “upgraded landscaping and aesthetics.” The interchange reconstruction is part of the Mead-to-Johnstown segment of Colorado DOT’s expansive I-25 North Express Lanes project.

Coloradoan recently published a video and a collection of photographs depicting the progress of construction since the 2018 launch of the multi-segment, multiphase project.

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Virginia DOT Offers Mini Park In Exchange For Nature Preserve Acreage

FFXnow reports, the I-495 Northern Extension (495 NEXT) project, a Virginia DOT and Transurban P3, will require the taking of 1.15 acres of a Fairfax County nature preserve. “As compensation, [the department] has proposed building a new park for the Fairfax County Park Authority on a 1.83-acre site . . . that it currently uses as a maintenance yard. ‘This is a commitment that we made and worked very closely with the park authority to provide all the features that they require,’” VDOT official Susan Shaw recently told county supervisors. The new space required careful design to accommodate county walking trail access and parking requirements. The deal to swap parcels requires additional state and federal approvals before it becomes final.

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Public Comment On Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge Study Ends This Week

The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) isued a reminder that the public comment period for the Chesapeake Bay Crossing Tier 2 National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) Study ends this Friday, October 14. The Tier 2 study “follows completion of the Tier 1 NEPA Study, and continues efforts to provide congestion relief at the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial (Bay) Bridge and its approach highways. . . .” A recording of one of the September open house meetings regarding the study is viewable online.

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