City officials in Aurora are looking over plans calling for the construction of a new 7-mile access road that would be designed to alleviate traffic feeding into the busy Denver International Airport.
The project, which for the present is being called the Aerotropolis Parkway, would also be just under 2 miles to the east of the toll road Colorado E479.
At present, the primary access road to the airport is the 30-year-old Pena Boulevard, a 14-mile S-curve route connecting Interstate 70 to the facility.
The new route is envisioned as having six lanes and most likely no traffic lights.
According to the publication Denver Gazette, the proposed road would “pass new communities along the corridor between the parkway’s route and the E-470 beltway.”
Those communities, making up a large segment of the open land in Aurora to the east and south of the airport, are seeing the construction of upwards of 700 new homes either completed or under construction, with plans in the works for more than 12,000 homes in the future.
Opened in 1995, the Denver International Airport is listed as the fifth busiest airport in the country and tenth largest in the world, serving more than 32.2 million passengers in just the first quarter of this year.
By Garry Boulard
