Posts Tagged ‘CDOT’

The intersection of 96th Avenue and Interstate 76 in Adams County is a complicated one with traffic coming from multiple directions.  The recent redesign of the intersection by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) had many raising eyebrows at its design and now an accident draws attention to its many shortcomings.  The area in question [...]

This is one I came across a few months ago and kept forgetting to write about.  The north area has long been on the short stick of funding from the state and the Colorado Department of Transportation.  Now comes the little nugget that CDOT has never even planned to add additional general purpose lanes to I-25 [...]

The North Area Transportation Alliance (NATA) released a scathing report of RTD’s FasTracks TaxTracks program, its finances and its plan for completion. The program has long been flailing and by the latest estimates suffers more than a $2 billion shortfall. What was supposed to be a regional rail system most likely now will become a [...]

Is it any wonder that north metro area residents have an inferiority complex when it comes to transportation funding?  Our highways are continually neglected and ignored by CDOT and oftentimes even our own area politicians.  We have watched C-470 bring relief to the southwest metro area, T-Rex fix the disaster through the central part of [...]

The north Denver metro area once again gets nothing with the announcement of Governor Ritter’s latest picks for transportation stimulus funds.  Despite having one of the most congested sections of I-25, our needs continue to be brushed aside by the state.  Click here to see what projects did make the latest list.  I was told [...]

Absolutely amazing.   As I reported earlier, out of the first $500 million of stimulus funds awarded to CDOT, Thornton gets all of one traffic metering light on the ramp from 84th Avenue to I-25.  OUCH.  I was pretty mad about that one but was told the city expected to receive some of the $60 million [...]

The Colorado Department of Transportation has released its list of highway projects that will be done courtesy of Colorado’s share of the president’s “stimulus” money – $500 million worth.  Certainly the north I-25 corridor would receive some of that right?  After all, our part of I-25 is some of the most congested in the state [...]

Quite the news item in yesterday’s Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel that should make folks really stand up and take notice.  CDOT Commissioner Heather Barry told the Thornton City Council Tuesday that she was concerned that the north FasTracks rail line is in very real jeopardy due to rising cost overruns by RTD. She said, “Honestly, right now [...]