REBUILD

FROM PAGE 7 it’s unnecessary because of existing separation between I-25 and the road.

“We have taken a look at the project and now that it is built, we have (reevaluated), and we are removing about 11,000 linear feet of guardrail,” said Stephanie Alanis, a CDOT program engineer.

About 10,000 feet have been removed already, with 2,000 left to go, and CDOT was to nish in early March depending on weather, Alanis said.

O cials also have lowered the speed limit, Alanis noted. Some commenters raised the issue of drivers passing other cars on the narrow road, a problem one man attributed to the lower speed limit.

But road management involves tradeo s, Alanis said, adding: “You lower the design speed limit, and that allows us to also take away some of the guardrails.”

Concerns over growth, safety

Four teens were involved in a head-on car collision on the frontage road around midnight Aug. 5. A man in a Toyota crossed into oncoming tra c and struck a pick-up truck carrying the teens.

Two of the 17-year-old passengers in the truck died in the accident, and an unidenti ed driver and another passenger were both taken to area hospitals for moder-