{"id":15401,"date":"2019-05-23T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T21:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=58048"},"modified":"2019-05-23T15:13:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T21:13:30","slug":"fraser-approves-1m-bid-for-county-road-8-bridge-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/fraser-approves-1m-bid-for-county-road-8-bridge-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser approves $1M bid for County Road 8 bridge replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"
The bridge over the Fraser River on County Road 8 will be replaced this August.<\/strong>
Courtesy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With construction cones already out in Fraser along Highway 40, the town\u2019s Board of Trustees is preparing for yet another roadwork project later this summer.<\/p>\n

At the board\u2019s regular meeting on Wednesday night, the trustees approved a $1 million proposal<\/a> from Steamboat Springs company Duckels Construction, Inc. to replace the bridge over the Fraser River on County Road 8, a project that is estimated to take around four months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bridge is old and it\u2019s been failing,\u201d said Jeff Durbin, Fraser town manager. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to rehab it, we need to replace it. We\u2019ve done some rehab work in recent years, but it\u2019s like putting a bandaid on a bleedout.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

While the replacement is desperately needed, it will require the closure of County Road 8 for the duration of the project, which could be around four months. During the road closure, the town will have to provide alternative routes for drivers, emergency responders and transit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is full on taking out the bridge,\u201d Durbin said. \u201cWe looked at doing half and half, but it would\u2019ve added something like 50 percent to the project (cost) and a couple more months, so we\u2019ve just got to rip the bandaid off and get this done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Durbin said the town\u2019s next steps will be to find a company who will conduct a traffic management study to determine how many drivers utilize the road and will have to be diverted, as well as what other routes emergency responders and transit can take.<\/p>\n

To try and lessen the impacts of the project, Durbin said construction on County Road 8 isn\u2019t scheduled to begin Aug. 1, after the Public Safety Improvement Project on Highway 40 is completed.<\/p>\n

However, the road closure will impact Fraser\u2019s Meadow Ridge and Winter Park Ranch neighborhoods, as well as the Lift lines that run through them. Another way the town is trying to alleviate the burden of this project, is by considering an early completion bonus for the contractor.<\/p>\n

The town had originally budgeted the project at $1.2 million, but received bids under that, allowing them to approve a roughly $900,000 construction budget with room for over $150,00 in contingency funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese detours will have impacts to people, so I think the idea of an early completion bonus is a really good one,\u201d Durbin said. \u201cSince the bids came in lower than expected, if we can use some of those dollars that we had initially budgeted to get this project done sooner that might be a really good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the project is in conjunction with CDOT, the state will foot most of the bill and the local contribution will only be around $200,000, which will be a shared cost between Fraser and the county.<\/p>\n

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The bridge over the Fraser River on County Road 8 will be replaced this August.Courtesy With construction cones already out in Fraser along Highway 40, the town\u2019s Board of Trustees is preparing for yet another roadwork project later this summer. At the board\u2019s regular meeting on Wednesday night, the trustees approved a $1 million proposal […]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 23:48:46","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":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}