Projects - Infrastructures
Bridges: Vehicular

West First Street & Bridge
Crossing the Big Thompson River
Loveland, Colorado

City of Loveland, Colorado

LORIS was the prime consultant for design of a $1.7 million federally funded replacement bridge over the Big Thompson River for the City of Loveland.

The new, wider bridge allows safe pedestrian traffic above deck and below on the bike path. LORIS worked closely with other team members - artist Mario Echevarria, the landscape architect, and the Loveland Arts Commission - to create "Patterns in Motion" on the bridge.

Roadway improvements included approximately 2,800 feet of regrading to improve sight distances and drainage. The project also involved improvement of the intersection of Taft and First Street, where a north-south segment was reconfigured to include four through-lanes, and left- and right-turn bays on all four legs.