CDOT - Wed October 06, 2021
CDOT Demolishes 57-Year-Old Aging Viaduct On I-70
Crews from the Colorado Department of Transportation's Central 70 Project successfully demolished the 2-mi.-long Interstate 70 viaduct between Colorado and Brighton boulevards in four months, one month ahead of schedule....
CDOT - Wed August 11, 2021
CDOT Officials Form Incident Command for I-70 Mudslide
Glenwood Canyon, a 12.5-mi. canyon in western Colorado, was closed on July 29 due to a severe mudslide in the Grizzly Creek burn scar area. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) highway maintenance personnel have been working to secure the roadway and protect life safety, but the combination of the fires from last summer and the extreme rain resulted in substantial damage to the roadway, necessitating a longer-term closure of the Interstate....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed July 15, 2020
Widening the Gap — How KNA Is Improving a Major Colorado Highway
The Colorado Department of Transportation's (CDOT) $350 million I-25 South Gap project, awarded to Kraemer North America (KNA), is improving 18 mi. of highway south of Castle Rock (Douglas County, about 40 mi....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed June 17, 2020
Crews Near Completion of 'Best in Colorado' Project
Construction crews in Montezuma County, Colo., are putting the finishing touches on an $11.2 million project that improves safety through the construction of alternating passing lanes and vehicle turn-outs between mile points 27.75 and 29.75....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed February 26, 2020
'Band-Aid' Fixes No Longer Functional on I-70 Highway
Crews continue to make progress on the Central 70 project in Denver, Colo. The $1.2 billion effort will reconstruct a 10-mi. stretch of I-70 between Brighton Boulevard and Chambers Road, along with adding one new express lane in each direction and removing an aging viaduct....
Jennifer Hetrick – Associate Editor - Wed September 25, 2019
CDOT Looking to Purchase Historic Burnham Yard From Union Pacific
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is currently working with Union Pacific to potentially purchase a 61-acre parcel of land near downtown Denver. The land is part of the defunct Burnham Yard, which was closed in 2016 as a reaction to a sharp decline in the number of coal carloadings in Colorado over a span of more than 10 years....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed July 31, 2019
U.S. 36 Sinkhole No Match for CDOT
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) wasted no time getting to work repairing a sinkhole on a heavily trafficked highway connecting Boulder to Denver, hiring a contractor only days after the damage was revealed....
Associated Press - Wed July 17, 2019
Work Begins on $70M I-70 Express Lane
DENVER (AP) Colorado plans to add another tolled express lane on Interstate 70 near Idaho Springs. The Denver Post reports the $70 million project west of Denver will include a 12-mi. (19-km) zone where construction began July 15....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue July 02, 2019
Colorado DOT Works Around 'Memorial Rock'
Traffic on a southwest Colorado highway damaged by a massive rock fall over Memorial Day weekend should be back to normal this summer — with one key difference, the added sight of an 8.5 million-lb....
Colorado DOT - Wed June 19, 2019
CDOT Makes Decision to Re-Route Road Around Massive 'Memorial Rock'
Instead of demolishing and hauling away an 8.5-million-pound boulder that contributed to the destruction of a section of Colorado Highway 145 between Cortez and Telluride on May 26, the Colorado Department of Transportation is instead going to re-route the roadway around it — and save $200,000 in the process, according to news reports....
