Denver Area High Occupancy Vehicle & Express Lanes

I-25 Downtown North HOV & Express Lanes (Map Key #1) Denver area Access to these barrier-separated HOV lanes is controlled by gates. HOV lanes are Corpools (two or more passengers), buses, motorcycles, and solo marked with a drivers with an ExpressToll transponder are permitted. distinctive diamond logo „ NB entry points: I-25 at 20th Ave.; 20th St. & Blake St. at like the one at Coors Field downtown. left. „ NB exit points: 58th Ave. for I-25 northbound mainline traffic; Signs showing 70th Ave. bridge for local traffic only; Pecos St. onto U.S. 36 the diamond also (Boulder Turnpike) provide helpful Northbound hours of operation: Monday through Friday, noon until information for 3 a.m., and all day every weekend day unless special downtown HOV lanes events dictate southbound usage. motorists. Watch „ SB entry points: 58th Ave. for southbound through traffic; for them! 70th Ave. bridge over I-25 for local traffic north of 58th Ave.; Pecos St. at U.S. 36 for Boulder Turnpike „ SB exit points: 20th St. for southbound through traffic; 19th U.S. 36/Boulder Turnpike & Wynkoop for downtown (Map Key - #2) Southbound hours of operation: Monday through Friday, 5 a.m. to

HOV lanes on U.S. 36 are ○○○○○○○○○ 10 a.m. Weekends only as downtown events might dictate. restricted to carpools, buses, and motorcycles at all times

every day of the year. ○○○○ „ NB entry points: I-25 HOV lane system; and

Pecos St., where barrier- U.S. 36 ○○○○○○○ The I-25 HOV lanes can be used 2 Boulder Tpk. separated HOV lanes off on a toll basis by single-occu- I-25 end. I-25 HOV/ 1 Express Lanes pancy vehicles that have „ NB ending point: Federal EXpressToll ® transponders. Boulevard Follow posted instruction signs for „ SB entry point: U.S. 36 where vehicles with transponders at Sheridan Boulevard must pass under the toll reader; at „ SB ending point: Pecos this same point, HOV vehicles St., at the merge into must be in their designated lane. barrier-separated HOV To obtain an EXpressToll ® lanes to I-25 (gate transponder and create an active controlled) account, visit: U.S. 85/ www.expresstoll.com Santa Fe 3 Or call (303) 537-3470 or 1-888- Alternate Fuel Vehicle ○○○ 946-3470. Retail locations HOV Permits offering transponders are listed on Vehicles using the following the website. alternate fuels may use HOV lanes U.S. 85/Santa Fe Drive regardless of the number of (Map Key - #3) occupants: natural gas, propane, Buses, carpools, motorcycles, and electricity, liquified petroleum all vehicles making left turns are gas (LPG), and compressed permitted during restricted hours. This fact sheet is produced by the natural gas. „ SB beginning point: Platte Colorado Department A decal is required from the River Drive of Transportation (CDOT) Colorado Department of Revenue. „ SB ending point: Bowles Ave. Public Relations Office A required permit for HOV lane (303) 757-9228 usage may be obtained from the „ NB beginning point: Bowles Colorado Department of Transpor- Ave. tation. Call (303) 757-9539 for „ NB ending point: Alameda information. Ave.