For the past several years Cañon City, CDOT, and Wilson & Company (Engineers) have been working to develop and fund a project that would improve pedestrian crossings along US-50 in the Downtown District (1st to 15th). The project need was originally identified in the US-50 Corridor Plan (2015) which was further refined by the US-50 Pedestrian Crossing Study (2017 and the US-50 West Access Control Plan (2020). Detail design based on the outcome of those plans and the public/stakeholder meetings that advised them is nearing completion and funding through a combination of CDOT grants and a local match has been secured for the first phase of the project. Construction of the first phase is planned to begin after Labor Day 2023 and complete in Spring 2024.
