{"id":119513,"date":"2014-06-18T19:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T01:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/u-s-491-scheduled-for-14m-repaving\/"},"modified":"2014-06-18T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T01:54:56","slug":"u-s-491-scheduled-for-14m-repaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/u-s-491-scheduled-for-14m-repaving\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. 491 scheduled for $14M repaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e9510c42-8f11-4c0c-a439-aee115924476&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e9510c42-8f11-4c0c-a439-aee115924476&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e9510c42-8f11-4c0c-a439-aee115924476&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e9510c42-8f11-4c0c-a439-aee115924476&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"929\" alt=\"The intersection of County Road 21 and U.S. 160\/491 could be abandoned under a proposal by CDOT. Access would be rerouted to County Road B.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The intersection of County Road 21 and U.S. 160\/491 could be abandoned under a proposal by CDOT. Access would be rerouted to County Road B.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/ The Dolores Star<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The $14 million project will include a full-depth reclamation on the 17-mile stretch of two-lane blacktop, said CDOT engineer Mike Coggins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re expecting to start after July 4, and Skanska will be doing the work,\u201d he told the Montezuma County commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>Additional improvements are planned north of Towaoc. A left-hand turn lane will be installed for safer access into Woodies Convenience store for southbound traffic. Passing lanes will also be added along that stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Part of a separate proposed plan for U.S. 160\/491 is a major change for County Road 21. Pending successful negotiations with a landowner, CDOT is considering eliminating the intersection of Road 21 and the highway to accommodate for a northbound passing lane there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is not enough room within our easement for a passing lane and a left-hand turn lane (onto Road 21),\u201d Coggins said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of connecting to the highway, a cul-de-sac would be installed at the end of Road 21. Access to that neighborhood would be redirected to County Road B, where a left-hand turn lane will be installed and road improvements made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>intersection of County Road 21 and U.S. 160\/491 could be abandoned under a proposal by CDOT. Access would be rerouted to County Road B.Jim Mimiaga\/ The Dolores Star The $14 million project will include a full-depth reclamation on the 17-mile stretch of two-lane blacktop, said CDOT engineer Mike Coggins. \u201cWe\u2019re expecting to start after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-119513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119513"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=119513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}