56th Ave Improvements: Peoria to Peña

As part of the Elevate Denver Bond Program, DOTI will make several improvements along 56^th Avenue from Peoria Street to Pena Boulevard to help move more people, safely, whether they’re in a car, on a bike, on foot or taking transit. The project, which is still in the design stages, will incorporate the following enhancements along this highly-traveled stretch of 56^th Avenue:

• Widen the roadway from one to two travel lanes in each direction to ease vehicle congestion
• Add a new concrete median to separate eastbound and westbound vehicle traffic and to carve out a safe place pedestrians can stop in the middle of the street, if needed, before continuing to cross
• Install new traffic signals and pedestrian crossings
• Build a new multi-use path along the north side of 56^th Avenue for pedestrians and people on bikes, which will provide better connections to neighborhood bike lanes and to the trail system at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge
• Improve drainage along 56th Avenue and Uvalda Street

56th Avenue serves as a major east-west regional thoroughfare and a major connection to Denver International Airport (DEN) and the Montbello and Parkfield neighborhoods.  Construction is expected to begin late summer/early fall 2021.