A 4 foot wide block of road surface broke away from the deck of a Interstate 70 overpass in the foothills, creating a hole which damaged several vehicles and required more than a full day to repair.
– A 4 foot wide block of road surface broke away from the deck of a Interstate 70 overpass in the foothills Wednesday, creating a hole which damaged several vehicles and required more than a full day to repair.
Workers with the Colorado Department of Transportation responded to the westbound lanes of I-70 around sunrise Wednesday morning and initiated repairs. The hole developed at the bottom of Floyd Hill on an overpass over Highway 6. Vehicles in the right lane struck the hole with their passenger-side wheels while negotiating a fast left-hand turn after descending the hill at highway speeds.
“Emergency repairs have become the norm for this vital stretch of the I-70 mountain corridor with decades of extreme weather and heavy traffic use, plus there have been no sustainable improvements since this section was built in the early 1960s,” said CDOT Executive Director Shoshana Lew in a CDOT press release. “Improvements can’t come fast enough.
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