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Roadbuilding
Colorado DOT deploys Geofoam for fast repair of sinkhole on major highway
Faced with a 300-foot-long sinkhole on U.S. 36 between Denver and Boulder, the Colorado Department of Transportation decided to use Geofoam blocks to rebuild the highway’s sunken foundation. Cracks began forming on the five-year-old roadway in July, and within a week, the retaining wall for the road collapsed and wet clay soil underneath the road […]
January 6, 2020
Roadbuilding
Colo. DOT blasts 2.5-million-pound boulder blocking highway
The Colorado Department of Transportation posted a video of the 2.5-million-pound boulder being blasted after damaging a highway. Watch here on Equipment World.
June 4, 2019
Safety
Father-to-be and father of 5 killed in Colorado trench collapse
On April 16th, Jorge Baez Valadez and Christopher Lee Ramirez lost their lives in a trench collapse. OSHA is investigation the incident. More details here.
May 1, 2019
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., 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
Boulders strike semi trucks as rockslide shuts down I-70 in Colorado
A boulder the size of a small car hit two semi-trucks on Interstate 70 in Colorado during a rockslide that shut down the highway. The Denver Post reported that the rockslide on Monday night in Glenwood Canyon didn’t injure anyone, but did divert traffic 146 miles east of the Utah Boarder after the Colorado Department of Transportation shut down […]
February 17, 2016
Roadbuilding
Watch Caltrans use explosives to move a 20-ton boulder
A 20-ton boulder blocking a rural road might seem like an pretty difficult thing to move, but not when you have explosives. After the massive boulder fell onto U.S. Highway 50 about 80 miles north of Sacramento, the California Department of Transportation cleared the area and brought in the big guns – well, big explosives. In […]
January 21, 2016
Roadbuilding
Suburbs become more bicycle friendly
Many young Americans are driving less than in previous years, and cities are reacting by adding more options, including bike and pedestrian paths. So it’s no surprise that when the League of American Bicyclists released its latest list of Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC) on Tuesday, the association announced that suburbs had joined other communities on […]
October 15, 2013
Roadbuilding
Flood waters cause $500 million in damage to Colorado roads
Residents and officials in Colorado are finally able to see the damage flooding has caused to their roads. For the first time since flooding began in Colorado last week, rain in the state stopped Tuesday, The Denver Post reported.  [youtube p_voEYbM5e8 nolink] The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) noted Tuesday that flooding has subsided in […]
September 18, 2013
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