The Colorado Department of Transportation reminds drivers to expect heavier than normal traffic in many areas of the state over the next week-and-a-half as people travel for the holidays.
Unbuckled roadway fatalities increasing, at 118 this year.
The Colorado Department of Transportation, in cooperation with Martin Marietta, will be resurfacing US Highway 50 between Mile Post 316.5 and MP 331.
The project will start at the intersection of US 50 and Bonforte Boulevard in Pueblo and continue east on US 50 to Avondale Boulevard.
Other improvements that will be done to the roadway include micro-surfacing, bridge work, guardrail replacement, ADA ramps, and possible slope paving.
Most people killed in vehicles on Colorado roads are not buckled up.
Men more likely to be unbelted -- 72 percent of unbuckled deaths were men in 2021.
Motorists urged to avoid or limit driving during the peak of the storm in Colorado.
The Colorado Department of Transportation will begin work to add four passing lanes on US 287 between Kit Carson and Lamar. This work is set to begin Monday, February 14, and is expected to be completed in February 2023.
Two northbound passing lanes will be added between MP 94 to MP 96 (North of Lamar) and MP 114 to 116 (North of Love's Travel Stop in Eads). Two southbound passing lanes will be added between MP 110.9 to MP 112.4 (Near the Cobblestone Inn & Suites in Eads) and MP 120 to 122 (South of Kit Carson).
The Colorado Department of Transportation is holding a career fair Friday, December 10 in Pueblo seeking to hire permanent and temporary, full-time, and part-time highway maintenance workers in the southeast portion of the state. The fair will be held at CDOT Region 2 Headquarters, 5615 Wills Blvd., Pueblo, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Specific fair information is listed below.
A variety of positions are available for hire, including:
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has announced that Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon is expecte to partly reopen Saturday.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis sent a letter to federal transportation authorities Monday seeking more than $116 million in emergency funding to help rebuild parts of I-70 through Glenwood Canyon that were damaged by multiple mudslides.
