Heads up, night owls and early birds who travel along Powers Boulevard: The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will be setting up overnight road closures on this main thoroughfare for bridge work starting April 7. A series of closures will affect the southbound and northbound lanes over five nights in April, as crews focus on erecting the new structures that will span Powers Boulevard.
For those seeking the nitty-gritty details, the schedule handed down by CDOT indicates that starting Monday, April 7, the southbound side of Powers will be completely off-limits from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. at East Platte Avenue. Come Tuesday, it flip-flops, as the northbound traffic gets the red light at Airport Road, shut down from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. These alternating closures will continue through the week, capping off with simultaneous closures in both directions come Friday night, as mentioned by CDOT.
Modification to your nighttime driving plans will be necessary, and CDOT has gone ahead and put detour signs in place to help confused motorists navigate around the closures. For those hitting the southbound trail, you'll be detoured off at East Platte Avenue, down Academy Boulevard, and then hang a right onto Airport Road to get back on track. Northbound drivers, you'll be directed east on Airport Road and then north via the Powers Boulevard on-ramp at Stewart Avenue.
