Colorado Gov. Bill Owens last week picked up the last traffic cone of the five-year, $1.7 billion I-25 widening project, known as TREX, opening the final ramps to traffic.
"This is what we need for the future," Owens said at a ceremony held on an on-ramp to I-25. The governor, who signed the legislation to initiate the country's largest design-build project in 1999, will be leaving office at the end of this year. Colorado media have saluted the project as one of the major accomplishments of the governor and Colorado Department of Transportation Director Tom Norton.