Peoria Street Bridge Replacement

Background

The city of Aurora intends to replace the Peoria Street bridge over Sand Creek and widen Peoria to six travel lanes to improve safety and mobility for an essential transportation corridor.

The existing 60-year-old bridge narrows Peoria Street from six lanes to four, creating a bottleneck. This contributes to delays and operational inefficiencies at the Peoria Street and Fitzsimons Parkway intersection. Additionally, the sidewalks throughout the project area are substandard. This project aims to address these issues by improving travel operations, enhancing connectivity for travelers, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, minimizing injuries and crashes, and increasing mobility for all populations.

The project is currently in the conceptual design phase. Given physical constraints and technical requirements, the team will prepare the most promising conceptual design to move forward with based on an initial screening process. As the project advances, there will be opportunities for the community to review and provide feedback on the design. For now, the project team is seeking input on your experience with Peoria Street between Fitzsimons Parkway/MLK Jr. Boulevard and 30th Avenue. A project survey is currently open through Aug. 15, and your participation is strongly encouraged. Take the Share Your Experience available on this page.

Project Location

Peoria Street serves as a critical connector for both the city and the greater Aurora-Denver metropolitan region. The Peoria corridor connects to I-70, functions as a relief route for I-225, and is a designated freight route on the National Highway System. It also links two major urban centers while supporting multimodal transportation options, including access to transit stops and a light rail station within a half mile of the project area. Additionally, the Peoria Street bridge spans the Sand Creek Regional Greenway, a key recreational and ecological corridor.

Project Goals

• Deliver a resilient and long-term solution to reduce current and future traffic congestion and improve air quality.
• Enhance multimodal access and experience along Peoria Street and connections to the Sand Creek Greenway Trail.
• Ensure the Sand Creek basin is not negatively impacted by the new improvements.
• Replace a functionally obsolete bridge to improve user safety.