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The label says how we know the figure. The grade rates the source record, not the project.
The grade rates the source record, not the project.
CDOT · Transportation
North I-25 Express Lanes — Segment 5 (Mead–Berthoud)
Final two-lane gap of I-25 between Denver and Fort Collins. Timeline 2024–2028 (est.).
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Est. total cost
≈ $210M
Delivery stage
● Underway
Paid so far, to whom PENDING
No payment published yet.
1 vendor row below; per-vendor payments are pending TOPS ingestion.
Your take on this project
Latest public update
Under construction: the CM/GC lists a $210M contract and trade press reports groundbreaking with completion expected mid-2028. Earlier CDOT funding materials cited ≈ $100M — we are reconciling the program vs. contract figures. CDOT's September 2026 dashboard for the segment shows construction package 1 complete, with a fixed completion date of Dec 31, 2024, and fixed completion dates of Jun 30, 2027 and Jan 28, 2028 for packages 2 and 3.
Open questions for the state ANALYSIS
- Will construction package 3 hold its Jan 28, 2028 completion date?
Fiscal position
Total project cost≈ $210M
Total cost & funding are drawn from the official record(s) listed below.
Spend-to-date: not published. Colorado does not publish what it has spent on this project, so this field is left blank rather than estimated. It will fill from TOPS/CORE vendor expenditure data as payments are matched to projects.
Milestones
- CM/GC team selected
- Construction package 1 complete — December 2024
- Construction packages 2 and 3 — contract completion June 2027 and January 2028
- Expected completion — mid-2028
Estimate, first to current FACT
first public estimate → current+$110M · +110%
CDOT funding estimate → CM/GC contract$100M → $210M
Watchlist average drift+50% per project · +23% dollar-weighted
Both endpoints are drawn from the source records below; the change, percentage, and average are our arithmetic (CALC). The average covers the 5 of 50 tracked projects with two published estimates — for the rest, the state has published a single figure, so their drift is unknowable, not zero. Estimates move in both directions — we show the honest record either way.
Who is being paid FACT
Funding sourceFinanced by reinvesting toll revenue from Segments 6–8 into a loan.
| Vendor | Contract / value | Paid to date | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| WITHHELDCM/GC team, Mead–Berthoud segment | $210M contract | PENDING | B |
The money is published; the names are held. Each row below carries the contract value, what has been paid to date so far as it is published, and our confidence grade — the same figures as always, from the same official records. What is withheld is the vendor's name, the record link that names it, and the campaign-finance search that sat beside it. That is a deliberate decision taken pending legal review, not a figure we could not find: a blank cell would have said the opposite. What WITHHELD means
Source records
- BCDOT — North I-25 funding page (codot.gov)read 24 September 2026
- ACDOT — North I-25 Segment 5 project dashboard (September 2026)read 24 September 2026