CDOT installs LED lights in pavement on Highway 93
When it's time to hit the road, visibility is of utmost importance to Debra Cole. "So, I make sure everything is clean, the same with my headlights," Cole said. Every night, she drives down Highway 93 between Golden and Boulder. "Because I'm a night nanny. I go to work.
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"This is something we are really excited about," Stacia Sellers, CDOT Communications specialist, said. "It is very dark. These are curves, It does get windy. You also have blowing snow a lot of the times, too. So, it's really helpful to have LED lighting in the pavement so you can really differentiate between if you're in the lane you're supposed to be in of what the other lane is."
Cole said the difference is huge. "So, yes, they help a lot," she said.
CDOT first installed these LED lights along I-70 near Floyd Hill just east of Idaho Springs.
"We saw a huge reduction in crashes resulting in injuries or fatalities due to new pavement lighting," Sellers said.
She hopes to see the same kind of results along Highway 93. Sellers says CDOT would like to install these lights in more places, but it is a bit expensive -- between $15,000 and $25,000 per linear mile.)
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