department of transportation

Denver infrastructure, climate office budgets discussed

Sep 18, 2024

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Colorado Politics

Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) will see a modest budget increase compared to last year but the city’s climate office will face a slight decrease. The budgets for the two department’s briefings on Tuesday were created through the lens of Mayor Mike Johnston’s four stated citywide goals. His goals, broadly speaking, did not…
Colorado appeals court agrees CDOT worker showed agency retaliated against him

Jul 3, 2023

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Michael Karlik

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…
Denver to consider extending local disaster emergency to better handle influx of immigrants

Feb 26, 2023

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Alex Edwards

A local disaster emergency may be extended by the Denver City Council as the city has seen a steady influx of over 4,600 immigrants from the southern border. Denver began accepting immigrants in December and the extension will last until March 27, 2023. In addition, the Council has 12 other resolutions on its agenda ahead…
60 DIA flights cancelled, more delayed after FAA system outage

Jan 11, 2023

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Kyla Pearce

More than 60 flights out of Denver International Airport this morning were affected by a Federal Aviation Administration computer system shutdown Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Tuesday night, the FAA’s Notice to Air Missions system (NOTAMs), which provides safety info to flight crews, experienced an outage that resulted in delayed and cancelled flights across the…
Denver approves crosswalk signals, welcomes Ulibarri Park

Nov 7, 2022

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Alex Edwards

Denver City Council took steps to improve pedestrian safety Monday night, and took time to honor a couple who made their mark on the city in the 1960s and ’70s. Council approved a budget amendment that adds $1.1 million for the purchase of pedestrian crosswalk signals – but it was half of what members wanted.…
Both transportation proposals on the ballot ignore user pay, are unfair to taxpayers

Oct 22, 2018

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Timothy J. Larsen

Proposition 110 and 109 do not create fair funding for our highways. Currently Colorado taxes gasoline and diesel fuel, with all users of our highways helping to maintain and improve our highways. Colorado and out-of-state businesses pay over 18 percent of the Colorado fuel tax (for diesel fuel) to support highways. Propositions 110 and 109…
THE PODIUM: It’s time to make transportation a priority for our tax dollars

Dec 28, 2017

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John Cooke

In the 20-year period since 1997 spanning three governorships – those of Bill Owens, Bill Ritter and John Hickenlooper – one governor stands out as proposing starvation budgets for Colorado’s state highways and roadways. That governor is John Hickenlooper. We are talking about each governor’s priorities for spending taxpayer dollars through the General Fund budget,…