Budget-busting bids for Estes Loop prompt search for options
ESTES PARK — Town, state and federal officials are scrambling to come up with options this week after the lowest bids for Estes Park’s traffic-diffusion project known as the Downtown Loop came in more than $11 million over budget.
The feds “are doing the primary noodling and evaluation,” said Gregory Muhonen, Estes Park’s public-works director, adding that project stakeholders now must decide how to keep the long-delayed project on track nearly six years after the town’s Board of Trustees approved it.
Muhonen had advertised for bids on the project in September, but was stunned weeks later when the lowest proposal from a…
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