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CDOT Receives $60 Million Grant To Improve Interstate 70 Over Vail Pass

VAIL, Colo. (CBS4)- The Colorado Department of Transportation will receive a $60 million federal grant to improve conditions of Interstate 70 over Vail Pass. That part of I-70 currently lacks an eastbound auxiliary lane, sufficiently wide shoulders and automated anti-icing technologies.

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The grant would go towards these improvements and also be used to repair the busy road.

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