U.S. 34 Construction Tour 05/21/18

A striping truck paints lines on U.S. 34 in the narrows of the Big Thompson Canyon Monday, May 21, 2018, in preparation of the road re-opening this Thursday west of Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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A home on U.S. 34 in the Big Thompson Canyon displays a sign Monday, May 21, 2018, thanking road construction crews west of Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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James Usher, project director with CDOT, talks about wor crews did on an area of U.S. 34 near where a land slide occured during the flood, during a tour of the Big Thompson Canyon on Monday, May 21, 2018, west of Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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Johnny Olson, transportation director for CDOT, stands on an old portion of U.S. 34 at the horseshoe curve in the Big Thompson Canyon as he talks about the new portion of the road, the bridge behind him on Monday, May 21, 2018, west of Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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Crews from CDOT and Kiewit and members of the media stand on a new portion of U.S. 34, a bridge, overlooking the old portion of U.S. 34 at the horseshoe curve in the Big Thompson Canyon on Monday, May 21, 2018, west of Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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Johnny Olson, transportation director for CDOT, stands on a new bridge on U.S. 34 above the old exhisiting road at the horseshoe curve in the Big Thompson Canyon as he talks about the new portion of the road, on Monday, May 21, 2018, west of Loveland. (Photo by Jenny Sparks/Loveland Reporter-Herald)

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