The city of Aurora is in the conceptual design phase of a project to replace the 60-year-old Peoria Street bridge over Sand Creek and needs community input by Aug. 15 on their travel experiences in the area.

The overall project will improve safety and mobility in the area, widening the bridge to six travel lanes to eliminate the existing bottleneck and replacing substandard sidewalks throughout the project area.

The project goals focus on reducing current and future traffic congestion, bettering air quality, enhancing multimodal access along Peoria Street and connections to the Sand Creek Regional Greenway Trail, ensuring the Sand Creek basin is not negatively impacted by the new improvements, and replacing a functionally obsolete bridge for improved user safety.

Generally, the project is helping care for the city’s network of infrastructure that improves the lives of Aurora residents.

Given the physical constraints and technical requirements, the team will prepare the most promising conceptual design to advance based on an initial screening process. As the project moves forward, there will be opportunities for the community to review and provide feedback on the design.

For now, the project team is seeking input on community experiences with Peoria Street between Fitzsimons Parkway/MLK Jr. Boulevard and 30th Avenue. To take the short survey by Aug. 15 and find out more, visit EngageAurora.org/PeoriaBridge.