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Self-Driving CDOT crash truck protects highway workers
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Highway work zone crashes kill hundreds of people nationwide each year — two Colorado workers last year — but a new driverless, autonomous highway maintenance truck in Colorado aims to shield workers from deadly rear-end collisions by taking the hit itself. At a press event in Falcon on Monday, the Colorado Department of Transportation demonstrated…
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Front Range Passenger Rail District votes to push back ballot initiative to 2026
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The district in charge of planning a passenger rail line from Pueblo to Fort Collins said on Friday that it would wait until 2026 to seek voter approval for a sales tax raise. Nancy Burke, director of communications and outreach for the Front Range Passenger Rail District, said district board members had been considering between…
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Aurora councilmembers demand action from CDOT on deadly bump on I-225 after seven deaths
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Aurora’s councilmembers are pressing for action from the Colorado Department of Transportation following the deaths of seven people in car crashes in one spot on I-225 in the past nine months. City officials said a bump on the highway caused four cars alleged to be travelling excessively fast to lose control and roll off the…
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Aurora councilmembers demand action from CDOT on deadly bump on I-225 after seven deaths
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Aurora’s councilmembers are pressing for action from the Colorado Department of Transportation following the deaths of seven people in car crashes in one spot on I-225 in the past nine months. City officials said a bump on the highway caused four cars alleged to be travelling excessively fast to lose control and roll off the…
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Colorado’s billboard regulations comply with First Amendment, 10th Circuit rules
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The federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday that Colorado’s rules governing paid advertising along highways do not violate the First Amendment, as they do not discriminate based on the content of the billboards. Two outdoor advertising companies challenged the state’s recently enacted regulations that require billboard owners to obtain a permit from…
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Colorado transportation projects awarded $42M in federal funds
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Dozens of transportation projects throughout Colorado are set to receive more than $42 million in grants, Gov. Jared Polis announced Thursday. Federal funds will support projects in 37 communities across the state, beginning next year through 2026. Projects that were awarded the grants ranged from replacing aging highway infrastructure to constructing bike paths to adding…
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Colorado appeals court agrees CDOT worker showed agency retaliated against him
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Colorado’s second-highest court agreed last month that a Colorado Department of Transportation employee demonstrated his supervisors likely demoted him not for performance-related reasons, but because he spoke with a civil rights investigator about misconduct in the agency. Weeks after Marcus Maes shared his knowledge of multiple racist or hostile workplace incidents, his superiors elected to…
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Colorado spends $550,000 in campaign to promote electric vehicle sales
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A Colorado state agency spent more than half a million dollars to tout the benefits of electric vehicles in an educational campaign that promotes the EV industry. The campaign, which the state launched Monday, seeks to inform Coloradans about how, among other things, “seamlessly EVs can fit into your life and find answers to all…
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Governor Polis kicks off $700 million in I-70 improvement projects on Floyd Hill
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Motorists frustrated with I-70’s famed bottleneck-causing Floyd Hill corridor are about to get relief by way of a $700-million Colorado Department of Transportation improvement project. Gov. Jared Polis, accompanied by U.S. Senators Michael Bennet, John Hickenlooper, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse and other state and local officials, met at the Floyd Hill Open Space Trails parking…
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Colorado’s clean truck strategy calls for replacing truck fleets with electric trucks by 2050
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Colorado officials are asking residents to weigh in on the state’s clean truck strategy. A draft of the state’s plan draws from the Colorado Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Study and Gov. Jared Polis’ Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap with the goal of removing all internal-combustion vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 8,501 pounds from Colorado…
