The Colorado Department of Transportation is moving forward with plans to widen and add express toll lanes to Interstate 270 in the north Denver area.
More than 100,000 shipping trucks and commuter cars travel through the six-mile diagonal stretch of I-270, which CDOT wants to widen between interstates 70 and 76. The transportation department plans to add as many six lanes to the I-270 section, which is currently four lanes, including two normal car lanes and one express toll lane in each direction.
A public comment window is wrapping up today, January 20, after three in-person meetings were held in Commerce City between January 8 and 13, as well as webinars on January 7 and 15. The CDOT Transportation Commission also heard public comments and discussed the project on January 15…