{"id":33097,"date":"2019-10-16T14:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=60855"},"modified":"2019-10-16T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:04:31","slug":"county-road-8-bridge-finishes-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/county-road-8-bridge-finishes-ahead-of-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"County Road 8 bridge finishes ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script> jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $('#imageGallery-60855-606').lightSlider({ gallery:true, item:1, loop:true, thumbItem:9, slideMargin:0, enableTouch:true, enableDrag: false, currentPagerPosition:'left', onSliderLoad: function(el) { $( '.gallery-loading' ).hide(); $( '.swift-gallery' ).css( 'opacity', 1 ); var maxHeight = 0, container = $(el), children = container.children(); children.each(function () { var childHeight = $(this).prop( 'scrollHeight' ); if (childHeight > maxHeight) { maxHeight = childHeight; } }); container.height(maxHeight); } }); }); <\/script> <\/p>\n<div class=\"row gallery-loading\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<p class=\"text-center\"><i class=\"fas fa-circle-notch fa-spin\"><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" style=\"opacity: 0;\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-60855-606\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/DSC_4311-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/DSC_4311-1024x678.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | Fraser Mayor Philip Vandernail thanks the construction crews and public works department for their hard work on the project.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><strong>Fraser Mayor Philip Vandernail thanks the construction crews and public works department for their hard work on the project.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/DSC_4311-1024x678.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .col --> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .row --> <\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/DSC_4318-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/DSC_4318-1024x678.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | Vandernail and Grand County Commissioner Rich Cimino cut the ribbon on the County Road 8 bridge, which was under budget and ahead of schedule.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><strong>Vandernail and Grand County Commissioner Rich Cimino cut the ribbon on the County Road 8 bridge, which was under budget and ahead of schedule.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/DSC_4318-1024x678.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .col --> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .row --> <\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/DSC_4319-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/DSC_4319-1024x678.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | The project was a partnership between Fraser, the county and the Colorado Department of Transportation.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><strong>The project was a partnership between Fraser, the county and the Colorado Department of Transportation.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/DSC_4319-1024x678.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .col --> <\/div>\n<p><!-- END .row --> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, Fraser Mayor Philip Vandernail, county commissioners, Duckels Construction, town board members and employees gathered at County Road 8 to celebrate the newly completed bridge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it may not have been apparent to every driver, the bridge was in desperate need of replacement,&#8221; Vandernail said before the ribbon-cutting. &#8220;I say that because this project was an inconvenience for so many people and we didn&#8217;t take that lightly. We truly appreciate the patience and support of the community while the road was closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bridge will be open to the public beginning Friday, which is weeks ahead of the original project finishing date. Vandernail also noted the project finished under budget. <\/p>\n<p>He thanked town employees, public works employees and Duckels Construction for their hard work completing the bridge ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge, which has received a poor inspection rating from the state for at least the last 10 years, will be replaced as part of the Colorado Department of Transportation\u2019s off-highway bridge replacement program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fraser partnered with CDOT and Grand County to fund the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/fraser-to-begin-setting-up-road-detours-ahead-of-cr-8-bridge-replacement\/\">$1.2 million project.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was Fraser&#8217;s second road construction project completed this year, with the first being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/fraser-to-improve-visibility-of-new-us-40-medians\/\">pedestrian safety improvements on US Highway 40.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraser Mayor Philip Vandernail thanks the construction crews and public works department for their hard work on the project.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com Vandernail and Grand County Commissioner Rich Cimino cut the ribbon on the County Road 8 bridge, which was under budget and ahead of schedule.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com The project was a partnership between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-03 19:20:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}