Tag: Colorado Department Of Transportation
Sixty two buses, 60 drivers, 9,000 square miles: What happens when...
Fort Morgan, CO — Sherry Jean Burrell lives in a small, clapboard home amid the corn fields amid the plains amid the vastness of...
Senate transportation proposal scores win, but rough road remains ahead
Senate Republicans have work to do if they hope to move their latest proposal to fund big-ticket projects like the widening of Interstate 25 through...
Can autonomous vehicles solve the “first-mile, last-mile” problem?
It’s called the first-mile, last-mile problem of mass transit, and it has vexed transportation planners forever during the automotive era. Until you make it...
Grassroots lawsuit aims to halt $1.2 billion highway expansion in Denver’s...
Residents and activists from some of Denver’s poorest neighborhoods sued the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), claiming projects it approved will be harmful to their environment,...
Transportation bill with proposed tax hike clears House, faces tough road...
The House Friday gave its final blessing to a transportation bill that will ask voters in November to okay a hike in the state’s...
Bill to raise sales tax for transportation passes first test
Lawmakers worked into the evening Wednesday to find the best way, or perhaps the least objectionable way, to begin to fund a backlog of...
The highway lowdown: Denver’s I-70 expansion controversy, explained
Coloradans remain indignant over a plan to expand Interstate 70 in two northeast Denver neighborhoods, citing concerns like increased air pollution, unsolved traffic problems...
Elyria-Swansea residents to CDOT: leave us alone!
Donna Garduno has no intention of moving quietly.
Her small home is in north Denver’s Elyria-Swansea, a mostly low-income, Latino neighborhood where her family has...
Feds sign off on hard-fought I-70 plan, but fixes still years...
The seemingly endless studying of what ails the Interstate 70 corridor between Denver and Colorado’s mountain resort communities has started feeling a bit like the snarled driving nightmare common on mid-winter Sunday afternoons. The process inches forward at a glacial rate as the traffic just keeps building. But state and federal regulators seem buoyed by achieving at least one milestone on Thursday, as the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) signed a Record of Decision (ROD) for the Interstate 70 Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS).
Last anti-FASTER bill shot down in committee
Opponents of the last significant anti-FASTER bill still kicking in the State Legislature celebrated its demise in committee on Wednesday. House Bill 1084, sponsored by Republican Kevin Grantham in the Senate and Republican Randy Baumgardner in the House, was killed 3-2 by the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee.