Concrete repairs and rehabilitation on Main Street continue in downtown Cortez.
This week there will be single-lane closures where work zones exist. Daytime work hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and night work hours are 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Overnight on Tuesday and Wednesday, work will take place on the westbound and center lanes lane of Main Street between Mildred Avenue and Beech Street.
Overnight on Thursday, work will take place on the westbound and center lanes of Main Street between Beech and Maple streets.
These concrete processes are “loud and dusty,” CDOT says. Night work was chosen for this project to lessen impacts to traffic and businesses during the busy summer months and to expedite the project’s completion.
The preventative maintenance on the Main Street concrete in Cortez includes replacing damaged concrete, rehabilitating the surface of existing concrete (diamond grinding), resealing joints and cracks, and installing inlaid traffic markings. The project also reinstalls inlaid traffic markings on a short section of U.S. Highway 491 (Broadway) north/south of U.S. 160.
Access to businesses will be open, though temporarily altered if work is near a given entrance. Parking will be temporarily altered.
CDOT and contractor Interstate Improvement Inc. plan to complete the Cortez project by late October. The Cortez-area concrete repair projects were contracted to Interstate Improvement Inc. for $5 million.
Maintenance on the concrete surface of the highway will provide several key benefits to travelers and Colorado taxpayers, said Kevin Curry, CDOT program engineer, in an April 22 news release.
“Not only will the rehabilitation process restore and improve the roadway for mobility and safety, it will also give 15 to 20 more years of life to the existing concrete,” Curry stated. “The rehabilitation of the concrete will help us avoid reconstruction of the highway, ultimately bringing long-term savings to state taxpayers for potentially 20 years. A complete rebuild of the highway could likely have cost tens of millions of dollars.”
To contact the project, call 970-317-5658, or email at: 160cortez.durango.concrete@gmail.com
