The sharp bend where Second Street crosses Ute and Pitkin avenues in Grand Junction has been a tangle of competing interest amid planned upgrades to the Interstate 70 Business Loop, but a proposed transit hub could cut this Gordian knot.
For years, Grand Junction has been interested in turning Second Street into a promenade that would incorporate wider sidewalks and landscaping for a space more friendly to pedestrians and bicycles. One concern has always been finding a solution to get those people across Ute and Pitkin.
Meanwhile, the Colorado Department of Transportation has been working through upgrades to I70-B starting near Mesa Mall leading to its most recent work on the fifth phase of that project at the First Street and Grand Avenue intersection.
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Grand Junctionâs busiest intersection is about to get a lot busier.
In a couple of weeks, construction crews will start tearing up the somewhat convoluted intersection where Grand Avenue, First Street and Interstate 70B meet, and realign it into something that the Colorado Department of Transportation believes is more drivable.
That work, the fifth phase in a series of improvement projects on the business loop from Mesa Mall to Fifth Street, is going to take some time.
âWe have two primary facilities, two major highway systems that are interacting with each other, and itâs the main thoroughfare for all the Redlands residents,â said Kaity Clark, Grand Junction regional engineer for CDOT, referring to the confluence of U.S. 50 and Colorado Highway 340.