{"id":71903,"date":"2017-03-06T22:08:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/work-on-u-s-160-set-for-15\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T05:08:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:08:37","slug":"work-on-u-s-160-set-for-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/work-on-u-s-160-set-for-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on U.S. 160 set for &#8217;15"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=20011451-a35b-44a2-be6d-a85134526bf5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" alt=\"A Colorado Department of Transportation crew replaces a guardrail Wednesday between Bayfield and Yellowjacket.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A Colorado Department of Transportation crew replaces a guardrail Wednesday between Bayfield and Yellowjacket.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Colorado Department of Transportation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 9.1-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 160 will be resurfaced from the Montezuma County line to about 2 miles west of the intersection of U.S. 160 and Colorado Highway 140 at Hesperus. The project is set for the fall and projected at $7.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Because the road is wide in that stretch, traffic delays are anticipated to be minimal and last for no more than 15 minutes at a time, Nancy Shanks, CDOT spokeswoman, said in an interview Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A wildlife crossing \u2013 an underpass for large animals \u2013 will be built under U.S. 160 about five miles east of Elmore\u2019s Corner, between mile markers 97 and 98 outside Durango. Highway shoulders will be widened, and wildlife fencing will be installed on both sides of the highway to funnel animals into the underpass.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the presence of migratory birds, the work will begin after Sept. 1; it is scheduled to run through November. Shanks said it is expected that the majority of work will be done outside travel lanes, and no major traffic delays are anticipated during construction.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 75 percent of the accidents that occur between Durango and Bayfield are collisions between vehicles and animals, Shanks said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a huge migration corridor out there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Region 5 covers all or part of 15 counties in Southwest Colorado, reaching north into Ouray County and part of Montrose County, northeast as far as Chaffee County and as far east as Costilla County.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/assets\/pdf\/CJ33399568.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CDOT construction 2015 (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Colorado Department of Transportation crew replaces a guardrail Wednesday between Bayfield and Yellowjacket.Courtesy of Colorado Department of Transportation A 9.1-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 160 will be resurfaced from the Montezuma County line to about 2 miles west of the intersection of U.S. 160 and Colorado Highway 140 at Hesperus. The project is set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[576,13,167,1685],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado-department-of-transportation","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-local-news-lead","tag-road-work-and-conditions"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71903","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=71903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71903"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}