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Roadbuilding

Colo. DOT puts parolees to work on maintenance projects

The Colorado Department of Transportation is hiring people with criminal records to work on bridges and clean up areas along roadsides in an effort to give those on parole a second chance. CDOT contracts with the Center for Employment Opportunities to place the parolees in full-time and transitional employment. The center operates transitional work crews […]

November 27, 2017

Roadbuilding

Colo. DOT partners to build Hyperloop-inspired system

High-speed transportation startup company Arrivo plans to build its first ultra-high-speed transit system in Denver. The system, inspired by the Hyperloop concept, would reduce travel times from 1 hour between such locales as the Denver International Airport and downtown to less than 10 minutes. The Colorado Department of Transportation and the Denver area toll authority […]

November 17, 2017

Roadbuilding

Colo. DOT to unleash new tow plows in southern regions

Drivers in southwest and south-central Colorado will see some unfamiliar snow-clearing equipment on the road this winter, as the state deploys two “tow plows” to the region. The plows are headed by a conventional snow plow truck. The difference is that the truck also pulls a trailer that can swing out to the side and […]

November 8, 2017

Roadbuilding

With start of cold weather, CDOT urges drivers to watch out for wildlife

The cooler Colorado weather also means animals are coming down the mountain searching for food, which leads to more animal-vehicle crashes. The state has seen a rise in such accidents over the past four years, with more than 4,600 deer killed on state highways in 2016, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. “As days […]

October 31, 2017

Roadbuilding

Drone’s eye view of Vail’s new I-70 underpass and roundabouts

A $30 million project to build an Interstate 70 underpass and roundabouts to improve traffic flow in Vail, Colorado, has been completed ahead of schedule, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. The underpass connects north and south frontage roads between the Vail resort area and West Vail mall areas. The new Sandstone Underpass is […]

October 27, 2017

Roadbuilding

Mo. coalition forms to lure high-speed Hyperloop route for I-70

A new coalition is raising money to try to attract a Hyperloop route to Missouri between Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis along Interstate 70. The coalition hopes to beat out other urban areas around the world to entice the Hyperloop One company to build its first Hyperloop route in Missouri. The company says it […]

October 5, 2017

Roadbuilding

Colo., Idaho projects take top prizes at 2017 America’s Transportation Awards

A multimodal project in Colorado and the removal of dangerous intersections in Idaho won top honors at the 2017 America’s Transportation Awards competition. The Colorado Department of Transportation’s $487 million U.S. 36 Express Lanes project earned the Grand Prize and the Idaho Transportation Department’s $11.2 million U.S. 20 Thornton Interchange project was voted the People’s […]

September 29, 2017

Roadbuilding

CoDOT to install weather, speed monitoring on I-70

The Colorado Department of Transportation plans to install interconnected weather and road sensors and other devices on a particularly dangerous section of the Interstate 70 Glenwood Canyon corridor to improve driver safety. Three weather monitoring stations will be installed along a 15-mile stretch of east and westbound lanes to give drivers advanced warning of dangerous […]

September 29, 2017

Roadbuilding

CoDOT seeks snowplow drivers, road workers ahead of winter

If you’re looking for work and don’t mind cold weather, the Colorado Department of Transportation wants to talk to you. The CoDOT is getting an early jump on winter and is looking to hire both permanent and seasonal full-time and part-time snowplow drivers and road maintenance workers across the state. Hiring has already begun, with […]

September 27, 2017

Roadbuilding

CoDOT installs fiber optics for Wolf Creek Tunnel on U.S. 160

The Colorado Department of Transportation has completed a five-month project to install 95,000 feet of fiber optic cable on U.S. Highway 160. The cable will be used for digital controls within the Wolf Creek Tunnel. The $4.5 million project also included milling, repaving and striping the 16-mile stretch of highway in and near South Fork. […]

September 22, 2017

Roadbuilding

CoDOT to provide home improvements along I-70 rebuild route

The Colorado Department of Transportation has a long history of improving roads, but it will soon be in the business of improving homes. The department has set aside $2.3 million to provide interior storm windows and window-mounted air conditioning units to help mitigate dust and noise during the Central 70 Project, which will reconstruct a […]

September 20, 2017

Roadbuilding

CDOT deploys world’s first autonomous work zone impact protection truck

Not only was this department of transportation the first to use a driverless impact truck to make work zones safer, it also got the first Autonomous Impact Protection Vehicle ever built. Watch the video on Equipment World.

August 22, 2017