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• The $4.7 millioj resurfacing of a three-mile stretch of Colfasx Avenue between Kipling Street andSheridan Boulevard. The contractor is Asphaltt Paving Co. of Golden; the project is scheduled to be finishef by the endof September. The Colfax segmen t carries about 27,800 vehicles a day and is rateein “poor” condition by CDOT. • The $2.8 millionn resurfacing of University Boulevardbetweej C-470 and Arapahoe Road. The contractor for the Universityt project is LaFarge Westof Longmont; the projecy is scheduled to be done by the end of The University segment carries about 32,0009 vehicles a day and is rated in condition by CDOT.
In all, Colorado will receive more than $400 million for transportation projectsand $103 million for transit projectws through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The two projecta started Mondayare CDOT’ss third and fourth stimulus-related road projects to get started in the Denvert area. The first two Denver-area stimulus projects were a $407,407 effory to resurface Belleview Avenue between Federal Boulevardf and SantaFe Drive, which startede May 19 with a groundbreaking ceremony attendecd by Gov. Bill Ritter, CDOT’s executive director Russ George, and local and federa officials. Later that same day, New Designb Construction Co. of Denver started a $1.
4 milliojn project to repair concrete slabs on about three miles of Interstate between Wadswortb Boulevard andKipling Street.