Littleton Boulevard Fiberoptics Installation

  • Project typeTransportation
  • Project statusConstruction
  • StartJuly 2025
  • CompletionOctober 2025

Overview

Littleton’s safety, communications, and operational success requires a reliable, secure, and high-speed interconnected fiber network. Whether connecting to facilities or traffic signals, a well-built fiber network provides reliable communications with other infrastructure, assets and facilities, including emergency services. The traffic signals rely on communications and are critical to traffic safety, as highlighted in the Transportation Master Plan. Establishing an interconnected fiber network for municipal and emergency management services use also ensures that the city and its partners can provide rapid and reliable communications throughout their networks to keep staff informed and the public safe.

The Littleton Boulevard Fiberoptics Installation Project upgrades communications infrastructure in the city through the installation of new fiberoptic connections. The project is divided into three tasks:

  • The first task will splice into the existing fiber backbone on Broadway at Littleton Boulevard, install fiber cable on Littleton Boulevard from Broadway to Rio Grande Street, then proceed north to the Littleton Center and Arapahoe County Building. This fiber will connect ten traffic signals, one pedestrian, and one emergency signal to the Littleton Center.
  • The second task will extend the fiber network south on Datura Street from Littleton Boulevard to the Littleton Museum, Littleton Museum Collections Building, and Bemis Library.
  • The final task will splice the new fiber into the Colorado Department of Transportation’s fiber backbone along Santa Fe Drive in order to connect the County Line Road and Erickson Boulevard signalized intersection.

Key project benefits include:

  • The installation of fiber optics will provide reliable and efficient communication for the upgraded traffic signal equipment along Littleton Boulevard from Rio Grande Street to Broadway.
  • The traffic signal equipment currently operating the four signalized intersections within the project area is outdated, preventing the ability for safety upgrades. The upgraded equipment will provide more consistency throughout Littleton for improved maintenance and management of the signal system.
  • This project will not only enhance the communication network but aims to develop redundancy of the City’s traffic communication network. The addition of fiber along this segment of Littleton Boulevard is a key step in creating a complete fiber loop around the city, allowing staff to maintain communication with its traffic assets while repairs are being completed in the event of unintentional fiber damage. This means that even if one section of the fiber is cut, communication can still be maintained through alternative routes within the fiber loop. This feature significantly improves the resilience and reliability of the communication system, ensuring uninterrupted communication between the traffic signals and the Littleton Central Traffic Control System in the Littleton Center.
  • This project will provide access to a larger fiber traffic communication network for the jurisdictions connected in the first phase of the Broadway Fiberoptic Project (Littleton, Arapahoe County, and Centennial), and make further steps towards a vision of a future regional traffic operations center.

Schedule Highlights

  • Mid July, 2025 : Begin construction
  • October 1, 2025 Completion of facilities accessing Arapahoe County
  • Mid October, 2025: Construction complete

Contact details

Transportation Engineer
303-795-3863
pwprojects@littletonco.gov

Location

Rio Grande & Court Place, Littleton 80120  View Map

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