Summer work improves Boulder streets

As the construction season heads into fall, Boulder’s public works director Dennis Wortman said the city was able to make good progress on improving streets this summer.

The plan had been to put millings and chip seal on all of Adams Street, he said, but other streets came to the fore instead. Leslie Street “blew up” just south of Centennial Park, making it a higher priority than envisioned a year ago, he said. “It really needed some help,” he said.

With millings donated by Donnie Davis of Double Stud Construction, the city was able to reconstruction Leslie Street and get almost all of the streets surrounding that west side park, said Wortman. The county cooperated with the city on redoing Fourth, with the city paying for the oil and the county doing the work, he said.