U.S. Senator Ken Salazar

Member of the Agriculture, Energy and Veterans Affairs Committees

 

2300 15th Street, Suite 450 Denver, CO 80202 | 702 Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C. 20510

 

 

For Immediate Release

July 29, 2005

CONTACT:    Cody Wertz – Press Secretary

                        202-228-3630

Jen Clanahan – Deputy Press Secretary

                        303-455-7600

 

SEN. SALAZAR RELEASES EXPANDED LIST OF COLORADO TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS TO RECEIVE MORE THAN $231M IN FEDERAL FUNDS

WASHINGTON, D.C. – United States Senator Ken Salazar released an expanded list of Colorado transportation projects to be funded under the federal transportation reauthorization bill passed today by the Senate by a vote of 91 to 4. Senator Salazar voted for the bill.

“I am pleased that the Senate was able to come together in a bipartisan fashion today and pass this bill that is so important to both Colorado and the Nation,” said Senator Salazar.

Senator Salazar today voted for the following Colorado highway projects totaling more than $231 million:

I-70/Havana/Yosemite
 $4.2 million
Wadsworth & US36 Broomfield Interchange
 $2 million
Wadsworth Bypass (Grandview Grade Separation)
 $3 million
US 287 Ports to Plains Corridor
 $13.1 million
I-70 & SH58 Interchange
 $10.9 million
Improvements to Powers Blvd. & Woodman Rd. Interchange
 $16 million
Improvements to I-25S, Douglas, Arapaho County line to El Paso
 $9.8 million
Improvements to US36
 $13 million
Improvements to US24 – Tennessee Pass
 $6.8 million
Improvements to Bromley Lane &US 85 Interchange
 $1,664,000
Improvements to 104th & US 85 Interchange
 $1,664,000
Improvements to I-25 North, Denver to Ft. Collins
 $11.7 million
Improvements to I-70 East multimodal corridor
 $2 million
Improvements to Parker & Arapaho Rd. Interchange
 $2 million
Improvements to I-225, Parker Road to I-70
 $11.9 million
Improvements to I-70 West Mountain Corridor, Denver to Garfield
 $3 million
Improvements to I-76 – Northeast Gateway
 $9.1 million
Improvements to C470 &US85 Interchange
 $5.2 million
Improvements to Wadsworth & Bowles Intersection
 $2 million
Improvements to US160, Wolf Creek Pass
 $21 million
Fort Carson I-25 & Highway 16 Interchange
 $5 million
US 50 East Pueblo to Kansas Border
 $5 million
Heartland Expressway Improvements
$5 million
I-25 Denver to Ft. Collins Improvements
 $5 million
Pueblo Dillion Drive at I-25 Overpass & Ramp
 $5.2 million
Denver Union Station Improvements
$3 million
Improvements to 56th & Quebec Street
 $14.2 million
US 550 New Mexico State Line to Durango
 $4.8 million
SH 121 Bowles Ave Intersection and Ridgeway Improvements, Jefferson County CO
$1.6 million
Construction of McCaslin Blvd US 36 Interchange in Superior
$800,000
I-70 East Multimodal Corridor to Denver
$2 million
SH 83 – SH 88 Interchange Reconstruction-Arapaho County
$3.2 million
Improve to SH44 from CO Blvd
 $3.2 million
Improvements to SH550 btw Grand Av, N/S of city
$6 million
Improvements on US36 corridor from I-25 to Boulder.
$1.12 million
TOTAL $231 million

Under the Transportation Reauthorization bill passed by the Senate today, Colorado will receive a 46.75% increase over the last time the Transportation Authorization bill was reauthorized. That’s the largest percentage increase under this bill and more than any other state. That is $156 million more over the life of the bill than we received under the previous transportation bill - TEA-21.

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