Óscar A. Contreras is a Murrow-nominated journalist who has been writing for the E.W. Scripps Company since January 2014.
DENVER — Thousands of drivers across the south metro will have to plan ahead and pack their patience if traveling through the C-470 and Santa Fe interchange in Douglas County starting Friday night.
The full, five-day closure may seem like a traffic nightmare now , but the improvements that will come from it are worth it, leaders said. McNish said they anticipate delays of up to 20 minutes in the area, but when pressed by Luber about potential hour-long delays over the course of the closure, McNish said there was no specific detour route other than those on- and off-ramps, and encouraged drivers who usually take the C-470/Santa Fe interchange “to use some of the other regional roads that are that are available to them to avoid using and getting into this area altogether.
But the structure that holds that section of Santa Fe Drive together, built in 1968, is made up of a continuous span of beams instead of individual, precast beams, he said.
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